RE: auto backup and spfile restore

[Robert Freeman]

Title: auto backup and spfile restore

My guess is that there is a path defined in your init.ora that isn't correct. Check your alert log for more information.

 

RF

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Stephens
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: auto backup and spfile restore

 List,

We are in the process of testing every recovery scenario we can think of using rman.  We don't use a catalog and controlfile autobackup is on which implies the spfile is automatically backed up.

So one of the scenarios was to delete the spfile and pfile. 
To recover I thought we would be able to....

(database already shutdown)
rman
rman>set DBID=1370501721  ---i tried switch this with the command immediate following
rman>connect target /
rman>startup force nomount;  ---from what I read in the documentation this should force oracle to use a 'dummy' spfile.
rman>restore spfile from autobackup;

i realize there are several other ways to handle this situation but why can't i start the database in this way?
the error i get is:

RMAN> startup force nomount;

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of startup command at 01/24/2003 13:37:39
RMAN-04014: startup failed: ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
HP-UX Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3

what gives?