RMAN Restore database from different location

I backup to an nfs share "/rman" and I want to restore on another server with the backup pieces in a different directory "/may09"

I've tried

run {
allocate channel d1 device type disk format '/may09/%d_%u_%p';
restore database;
release channel d1;
}

But it's still looking for the backup pieces in "/rman"

I know I can restore archivelogs using
set archivelog destination to '/may09/archivelogs/MYDB';

I've scoured the manuals and can't figure out how to set the datafile backup piece source.

-Ken

Can you post your init.ora file and directory location of your backup?

Hi

Connect to the catalog database and then do

catalog start with '/may09'

it should tell RMAN that backup pieces are available in that directory and you want to restore from there

regards
Hrishy

Cool... like a needle in a haystack. Thank you!

Hi

Call it conincidence I might have to do the same thing
in comming few days :-)

I am lucky to be on 10.2

regards
Hrishy

The other option is to create a symbolic link:

Code:

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cd /
ln -s /rman may09

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:p