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Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Reference
10g Release 2 (10.2)

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RESET DATABASE

Syntax

reset::=

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Purpose

To reset the incarnation of the target database in the RMAN repository, which means to do either of the following actions:

Restrictions and Usage Notes

Keywords and Parameters

Syntax Element Description
TO INCARNATION primary_key Changes the current incarnation to an older incarnation. Specify the primary key of the DBINC record for the database incarnation. Run LIST INCARNATION OF DATABASE to obtain possible key values. After you issue RESET DATABASE TO INCARNATION, then you can run RMAN commands such as RESTORE and RECOVER.

Examples

Resetting RMAN to a Previous Incarnation in NOCATALOG Mode: Example In NOCATALOG mode, you must mount a control file that knows about the incarnation that you want to recover. The following scenario makes an old incarnation of database trgt current again:

CONNECT TARGET / NOCATALOG

# step 1: start and mount a control file that knows about the incarnation to which
# you want to return. if the current control file does not know about it, then
# you must restore an older control file
STARTUP NOMOUNT;
RESTORE CONTROLFILE UNTIL TIME 'SYSDATE-250';
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;

# step 2: obtain the primary key of old incarnation
LIST INCARNATION OF DATABASE trgt;

List of Database Incarnations
DB Key  Inc Key DB Name  DB ID            STATUS   Reset SCN  Reset Time
------- ------- -------- -------------    -------  ---------- ----------
1       2       TRGT     1334358386       PARENT   154381     OCT 30 2001 16:02:12
1       116     TRGT     1334358386       CURRENT  154877     OCT 30 2001 16:37:39

# step 3: in this example, reset database to incarnation key 2
RESET DATABASE TO INCARNATION 2;

# step 4: restore and recover the database to a point before the RESETLOGS
RESTORE DATABASE UNTIL SCN 154876;
RECOVER DATABASE UNTIL SCN 154876;

# step 5: make this incarnation the current incarnation and then list incarnations:
ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;
LIST INCARNATION OF DATABASE trgt;

List of Database Incarnations
DB Key  Inc Key DB Name  DB ID            STATUS  Reset SCN  Reset Time
------- ------- -------- ---------------- ------- ---------- ----------
1       2       TRGT     1334358386       PARENT  154381     OCT 30 2001 16:02:12
1       116     TRGT     1334358386       PARENT  154877     OCT 30 2001 16:37:39
1       311     TRGT     1334358386       CURRENT 154877     AUG 13 2002 17:17:03

Resetting the Database After Incomplete Recovery: Example 

This example assumes that an incomplete recovery or recovery with a backup control file was performed in NOCATALOG mode. Later, RMAN is started in CATALOG mode, but the RESYNC command fails because the incarnation has not been reset in the catalog.

% rman target / catalog rman/rman@catdb

Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production

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connected to target database: TRGT (DBID=1334531173)
connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> RESYNC CATALOG;

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of resync command on default channel at 11/01/2001 12:00:43
RMAN-20003: target database incarnation not found in recovery catalog

RMAN> RESET DATABASE;

new incarnation of database registered in recovery catalog
starting full resync of recovery catalog
full resync complete