Create a recovery catalog #1

Creating and using a dedicate recovery catalogue has benefits over a standard control file based catalogue.
-A single location for RMAN info
-Recovery views are well documented so can one can write reports
-Makes global scripting easier as you can store scripts for all databases
-Extra options like keep forever or keep records for longer than a year

To create a recovery catalogue we need a new database. 

#Edit the vi tab and add a new database line
vi /etc/oratab
orcl:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1
rcat:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1
utf:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1


. oraenv
rcat


sqlplus /nolog
conn / as sysdba

--CREATE RECOVERY DATABASE

STARTUP NOMOUNT

CREATE DATABASE rcat

   USER SYS IDENTIFIED BY SYS

   USER SYSTEM IDENTIFIED BY SYS

   LOGFILE GROUP 1 ('/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/redo01.log') SIZE 100M,

           GROUP 2 ('/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/redo02.log') SIZE 100M,

           GROUP 3 ('/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/redo03.log') SIZE 100M

   MAXLOGFILES 5

   MAXLOGMEMBERS 5

   MAXLOGHISTORY 1

   MAXDATAFILES 100

   MAXINSTANCES 1

   CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P15

   NATIONAL CHARACTER SET AL16UTF16

   DATAFILE '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/system01.dbf' SIZE 325M REUSE EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL

   SYSAUX DATAFILE '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/sysaux01.dbf' SIZE 325M REUSE

   DEFAULT TABLESPACE users 

      DATAFILE '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/users01.dbf' SIZE 200M REUSE EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL

   DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp

      TEMPFILE '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/temp01.dbf' 

      SIZE 100M REUSE

   UNDO TABLESPACE undots 

      DATAFILE '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/undots01.dbf'

      SIZE 200M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON MAXSIZE 300M;

CONNECT SYS/password AS SYSDBA

-- create a user tablespace to be assigned as the default tablespace for users

CREATE TABLESPACE users LOGGING 

     DATAFILE '/u01/oracle/oradata/mynewdb/users01.dbf' 

     SIZE 25M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT  1280K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED 

     EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL;

-- create a tablespace for indexes, separate from user tablespace

CREATE TABLESPACE indx LOGGING 

     DATAFILE '/u01/oracle/oradata/mynewdb/indx01.dbf' 

     SIZE 25M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT  1280K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED 

     EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL;

--Create catalog, views and procedures

@/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/rdbms/admin/catalog.sql

@/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/rdbms/admin/catproc.sql

exit

--Create recovery catalog tablespace

create tablespace rcat_data

datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rcat/rcat_data.dbf' size 60m autoextend on next 10m maxsize 200m;

--Create recovery catalog user

create user rcat_user identified by rcat_user 

default tablespace rcat_data

quota unlimited on rcat_data;

--Grant privileges

grant recovery_catalog_owner to rcat_user;

--Create catalog

[oracle@vmorcl u01]$ rman catalog=rcat_user/rcat_user

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Dec 13 06:43:06 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> create catalog;

recovery catalog created

RMAN>

--Now that the catalogue has been created, we can make use of the catalogue views that come with the catalogue

All views start with “RC_”
-RC_DATABASE
-RC_BACKUP_PIECE
-RC_PIECE_DETAIL
-RC_ARCHIVED_LOG
-RC_BACKUP_ACRHIVELOG_SUMMARY
-RC_BACKUP_SET
-RC_BACKUP_SET_DETAILS
-RC_BACKUP_SPFILE