Since you know the completion time and elapsed time from the RMAN output you could figure it out by doing:
bpimmedia -L -policy <policy> -d 06/14/2009 017:00:00 -e 04/27/2008 18:30:00 The end time (-e) is the one shown for completion (padded a little) and the start time (-d) is subtracting the hour and three minutes from that end time (and padding a little). This will show you the backup IDs and the image 1 and image 2 data. The image 2 data is the vaulted tapes. This would show you only the image 2 tapes if the image 1 tapes had already expired. Some people keep a longer retention on offsite than on site. ________________________________ From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:12 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] RMAN, Veritas - Correlating Media ID after tape vaulted When determining which tapes to recall from offsite, RMAN provides the RESTORE DATABASE PREVIEW RECALL syntax to identify the needed tapes. Here's an example: RMAN> RUN 2> { 3> set until time "to_date('06/17/2009 08:00:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')"; 4> restore database preview recall; 5> } executing command: SET until clause Starting restore at 09/22/2009 11:15:21 ... List of Backup Sets =================== BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time ------- ---- -- ---------- ----------- ------------ ------------------- 2070190 Incr 0 89.78G SBT_TAPE 01:03:42 06/14/2009 18:20:43 BP Key: 2070201 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20090614T180051 Handle: PRD_T20090614_db_s21827_p1_t689536853 Media: 002774 List of Datafiles in backup set 2070190 File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name ---- -- ---- ---------- ------------------- ---- 24 0 Incr 7113842263 06/14/2009 18:00:59 S:\ORACLE\PRD\SAPDATA10\BTABD_60\BTABD.DATA60 37 0 Incr 7113842263 06/14/2009 18:00:59 S:\ORACLE\PRD\SAPDATA2\SOURCED_1\SOURCED.DATA1 48 0 Incr 7113842263 06/14/2009 18:00:59 S:\ORACLE\PRD\SAPDATA13\ES700I_1\ES700I.DATA1 Notice the Media ID of 002774. So far, so good. The problem occurs when working with media that has been vaulted. What occurs then is the the images on 002774 are copied to a new tape with a different Media ID. Let's say in this case the vaulted tape has a Media ID of 003500 So tape 003500 goes offsite, and tape 002774 is put back in the scratch pool and reused. At this point the RECALL PREVIEW is reporting the incorrect Media ID, because RMAN has no knowledge of the tape vaulting. This brings up some questions I have not been able to find answers to. 1) What NBU command can be used to correlate the old Media ID to the new Media ID? I have examined and tried bpimmedia, bpimagelist and vmquery. No joy. 2) I believe the (unpublished) RMAN SBT API has routines to allow the media ID to be updated in the catalog in the event a tape is copied to a new one which is moved offsite. Does anyone know where the docs are regarding this ( I have looked), and if Veritas makes use of it. I have looked at the CROSSCHECK and CHANGE RMAN commands, but didn't see anything relevant. That doesn't mean it wasn't there however, I just could have missed it. The whole point of this post is to learn how to use the information provided by RMAN to request the correct tapes to be returned from offsite, given a date and time to restore to. Please don't suggest requesting a date range of tapes. We are already doing that, and it is crude and time consuming. Thanks, Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ----------------------------------
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