Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14191-02 |
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You can create an incremental backup of the target database containing changes to the database since the creation of the duplicate or the previous syncrhonization. You can apply the incremental backup to the standby database.
Note:
This technique cannot be used to update a duplicate database.RMAN enables you to synchronize a standby database with a primary database by creating an incremental backup at the source database that contains all changed blocks since the duplicate was created or last refreshed. You then apply the incremental backup to the standby database, which updates it with all changes.
This capability faciliates the temporary conversion of a physcial standby database into a reporting database, as described in Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration.. In particular, this capability makes it possible to reverse the effects of converting the standby into a reporting database. After the standby database has been used for reporting or testing, Flashback Database can reverse any changes resulting from that work, returning the database to its contents when it was still a standby. An incremental backup created with BACKUP
INCREMENTAL
... FROM
SCN
can be used to refresh the standby with changes at the primary since the conversion. and then managed recovery can resume. The effect is to return the reporting database to its role as standby.
For more details on this scenario, see Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration.
The incremental backup is created at the source database by means of the BACKUP
INCREMENTAL
FROM SCN
=
n
form of the BACKUP
command. For example:
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE SBT INCREMENTAL FROM SCN 750923 DATABASE; BACKUP INCREMENTAL FROM SCN 750923 DATABASE; BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK INCREMENTAL FROM SCN 750983 DATABASE FORMAT '/tmp/incr_standby_%U';
RMAN uses the selected SCN as the basis for this incremental backup. For all files being backed up, RMAN includes all data blocks that were changed at SCNs greater than or equal to the FROM
SCN
in the incremental backup.
Note:
RECOVER
DATABASE
operation at the source database.The backup sets produced by this command are written to ?/dbs
by default, even if the flash recovery area or some other backup destination is defined as the default for disk backups.
You must create this incremental backup on disk for it to be useful. When you move the incremental backup to the standby, you must catalog it at the standby as described in "Step 3: Catalog the Incremental Backup Files at the Standby Database". Backups on tape cannot be cataloged.
This example shows the steps required to update a standby database using incremental backups. The assumption is that you have already activated the standby, performed your tests or other operations at the standby, , and then used Flashback Database to undo the effects of those changes. The task here is to refresh the standby with the latest changes to the primary , so that it can resume its role as a standby database.
Create the needed incremental backup at the source database, using BACKUP
with the INCREMENTAL FROM SCN
clause.
Assume that the incremental backup to be used in updating the duplicate database is to be created on disk, with the filenames for backup pieces determined by the format /tmp/incr_for_standby/bkup_%U
.
RMAN> BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK INCREMENTAL FROM SCN 750983 DATABASE FORMAT '/tmp/incr_for_standby/bkup_%U';
Make the backup pieces containing the incremental backup available in some directory accessible on the system containing the standby database. For this example, assume that the destination directory is called /standbydisk1/incrback/
and ensure that it contains nothing besides the incremental backups from Step 1.
Use the RMAN CATALOG
command to register the backup sets in the RMAN repository at the duplicate. With an RMAN client connected to the standby database and the recovery catalog (if you use one at the standby), mount the standby and run the following command:
RMAN> CATALOG START WITH '/standbydisk1/incrback/';
The backups are now available for use in recovery of the standby.
Use the RMAN RECOVER
command with the NOREDO
option to apply the incremental backup to the standby database. All changed blocks captured in the incremental backup are updated at the standby database, bringing it up to date with the primary database. With an RMAN client connected to the standby database, run the following command:
RMAN> RECOVER DATABASE NOREDO;
You can now resume managed recovery at the standby. Any redo logs required at the standby with changes since those contained in the incremental are automatically requested from the primary and applied.