Hi Mike,

If you are not running *any* scheduled backups on your rman client (i.e. You
are not running any scheduled filesystem backups and you are not using
NetWorker to schedule your rman backups) then NetWorker will not be backing
up the index of the rman client.

Also, your "savegrp -v -O -l full <groupname>" will make NetWorker save the
client indexes of any clients defined in "groupname". Reading between the
lines of what you are saying I'm guessing that your rman client is not in
this group so its client index is not being saved. If this is the case then
this is why the client index cannot be recovered with nsrck -L7.

While it is true that rman saves information about the backup in an Oracle
recovery catalogue and/or in the database controlfile, NetWorker also stores
information about the backup in the client index for the rman client. If you
lose this index you cannot recover using rman until you recreate it - this
is why your recovery failed until you scanned the tape in.

Best bet is to make sure the client index of the rman client is saved prior
to deleting all the indexes. This will let you recover your client index
using nsrck -L7 and do your rman recovery without having to scan tapes.

Hope this helps!

Mark

> Hi List,
>
> We're testing disaster recovery, and the first test is to restore a database
> that was backed up using rman.
> The Server is 6.1.3 and the oracle modules is version 3 I believe. Both
> server and client are Solaris 8.
>
> To do this test what we have done is to config the rman client and the
> Networker Server and do a successfull
> rman backup and restore. Then do a full backup of the server followed by a
> "savegrp -v -O -l Full <GroupName>.
> then stop services, rename the nsr directory, re-install Networker,
> jbconfig, mmrecov, nsrjb -HEv, re-inventory nsrck -l7 (which gets the server
> indexes but fails on the rman client). When I try to restore the client
> indexes
> using nwrecover, I can see that I have nothing under ~nsr/index/<ClientName>
>
> Seems to me the issue is we're not getting the client indexes back down from
> tape, and so cannot perform a restore.
> Mind you, there have been no Server initiated backups, only rman started
> from the client.  Anyone have any ideas
> what step I've omitted or how to get the client indexes back? BTW mminfo -a
> -c shows the correct info.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> mike
>
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