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Re: Problem while Performing a Logical Restore?

Posted By: Cliff Burton
Date: Monday, 30 September 2013, at 5:12 p.m.

In Response To: Problem while Performing a Logical Restore? (O KHAN)

Hi Khan,

Short answer, no, you can't use two different backup tools to perform a restore.

You could add more logical logs to the primary so that you don't overwrite any during the restore of the secondary.

Cheers

Sent from my iPhone

> On 1 Oct 2013, at 7:00 am, "O KHAN" <theultimateboy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am testing a scenario of logical recovery of HDR-secondary using IDS 11.70
> FC7.
>
> I have taken the backup using "ontape" from primary server and restored it on
> secondary DB server using "ontape".
>
> Please note that primary is confugred for automatice logs backup using "onbar"
> with "Tivoli Storage Manager(TSM)".
>
> At the secondary server, I have completed the physical restore using "ontape
> -p" and now secondary needs logical recovery from disk , but, the logical logs
> at primary server is not available online (as logs are overwritten at primary
> side), however, they are available at the TSM.
>
> Hence, I have manually picked the required logical logs from TSM and tried to
> start the logical recovery using "ontape -l", but it is giving me the error or
> "bad tape".
>
> In my understanding, one possible reason could be that these logs are
> backed-up using "onbar", so they could not be restored using "ontape -l".
>
> So, then I have also tried restoring the logical logs using the command "onbar
> -r -l" but it is not doing anything?
>
> At the moment, my secondary sits in the "Fast Recovery (sec)" state. How can i
> bring it in the "Read Only (Sec)" state in my scenario?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Any suggest that is it possbile to perform the physical recovery using
> "ontape" and then i could be able to perform the logical recovery using
> "onbar"?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Khan
>
>
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Messages In This Thread

• Problem while Performing a Logical Restore?
  O KHAN -- Monday, 30 September 2013, at 5:00 p.m.
  • Re: Problem while Performing a Logical Restore?
    Cliff Burton -- Monday, 30 September 2013, at 5:12 p.m.
    • Re: Problem while Performing a Logical Restore?
      Gustavo Castro -- Monday, 30 September 2013, at 10:22 p.m.

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