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Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

Part Number E10643-01
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Summary of RMAN Commands

Table 1-2 provides a functional summary of RMAN commands that you can execute at the RMAN prompt, within a RUN command, or both. All commands from previous RMAN releases work with the current release, although some commands and options are now deprecated (see Appendix A, "Deprecated RMAN Syntax"). For command-line options for the RMAN client, refer to RMAN.

Table 1-2 Recovery Manager Commands

Command Purpose

@ (at sign)

Run a command file.

@@ (double at sign)

Run a command file in the same directory as another command file that is currently running. The @@ command differs from the @ command only when run from within a command file.

ADVISE FAILURE

Display repair options.

ALLOCATE CHANNEL

Establish a channel, which is a connection between RMAN and a database instance.

ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE

Allocate a channel in preparation for issuing maintenance commands such as DELETE.

ALTER DATABASE

Mount or open a database.

BACKUP

Back up database files, copies of database files, archived logs, or backup sets.

CATALOG

Add information about file copies and user-managed backups to the repository.

CHANGE

Mark a backup piece, image copy, or archived redo log as having the status UNAVAILABLE or AVAILABLE; remove the repository record for a backup or copy; override the retention policy for a backup or copy; update the recovery catalog with the DB_UNIQUE_NAME for the target database.

CONFIGURE

Configure persistent RMAN settings. These settings apply to all RMAN sessions until explicitly changed or disabled.

CONNECT

Establish a connection between RMAN and a target, auxiliary, or recovery catalog database.

CONVERT

Convert datafile formats for transporting tablespaces and databases across platforms.

CREATE CATALOG

Create the schema for the recovery catalog.

CREATE SCRIPT

Create a stored script and store it in the recovery catalog.

CROSSCHECK

Determine whether files managed by RMAN, such as archived logs, datafile copies, and backup pieces, still exist on disk or tape.

DELETE

Delete backups and copies, remove references to them from the recovery catalog, and update their control file records to status DELETED.

DELETE SCRIPT

Delete a stored script from the recovery catalog.

DROP CATALOG

Remove the schema from the recovery catalog.

DROP DATABASE

Delete the target database from disk and unregisters it.

DUPLICATE

Use backups of the target database to create a duplicate database that you can use for testing purposes or to create a standby database.

EXECUTE SCRIPT

Run an RMAN stored script.

EXIT

Quit the RMAN executable.

FLASHBACK DATABASE

Return the database to its state at a previous time or SCN.

GRANT

Grant privileges to a recovery catalog user.

HOST

Invoke an operating system command-line subshell from within RMAN or run a specific operating system command.

IMPORT CATALOG

Imports the metadata from one recovery catalog into a different recovery catalog.

LIST

Produce a detailed listing of backup sets or copies.

PRINT SCRIPT

Display a stored script.

QUIT

Exit the RMAN executable.

RECOVER

Apply redo log files and incremental backups to datafiles or data blocks restored from backup or datafile copies, to update them to a specified time.

REGISTER DATABASE

Register the target database in the recovery catalog.

RELEASE CHANNEL

Release a channel that was allocated with an ALLOCATE CHANNEL command or ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE command.

REPAIR FAILURE

Repair one or more failures recorded in the automated diagnostic repository.

REPLACE SCRIPT

Replace an existing script stored in the recovery catalog. If the script does not exist, then REPLACE SCRIPT creates it.

REPORT

Perform detailed analyses of the content of the recovery catalog.

RESET DATABASE

Inform RMAN that the SQL statement ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS has been executed and that a new incarnation of the target database has been created, or reset the target database to a prior incarnation.

RESTORE

Restore files from backup sets or from disk copies to the default or a new location.

RESYNC CATALOG

Perform a full resynchronization, which creates a snapshot control file and then copies any new or changed information from that snapshot control file to the recovery catalog.

REVOKE

Revoke privileges from a recovery catalog user.

RMAN

Start RMAN from the operating system command line.

RUN

Execute a sequence of one or more RMAN commands, which are one or more statements executed within the braces of RUN.

SEND

Send a vendor-specific quoted string to one or more specific channels.

SET

Set the value of various attributes that affect RMAN behavior for the duration of a RUN block or a session.

SHOW

Display the current CONFIGURE settings.

SHUTDOWN

Shut down the target database. This command is equivalent to the SQL*Plus SHUTDOWN command.

SPOOL

Write RMAN output to a log file.

SQL

Execute a SQL statement from within Recovery Manager.

STARTUP

Start up the target database. This command is equivalent to the SQL*Plus STARTUP command.

SWITCH

Specify that a datafile copy is now the current datafile, that is, the datafile pointed to by the control file. This command is equivalent to the SQL statement ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE as it applies to datafiles.

TRANSPORT TABLESPACE

Create transportable tablespace sets from backup for one or more tablespaces.

UNREGISTER

Unregister a database from the recovery catalog.

UPGRADE CATALOG

Upgrade the recovery catalog schema from an older version to the version required by the RMAN executable.

VALIDATE

Examine a backup set and report whether its data is intact. RMAN scans all of the backup pieces in the specified backup sets and looks at the checksums to verify that the contents can be successfully restored.