Quote Originally Posted by hrishy
Hi

The trick is to know the dbid and restore the controlfile from your tape backups

Code:
rman target /
set dbid 
startup nomount;
run
{
allocate channel ch1sbt_tape type sbt;
set controlfile autobackup format for device type sbt to
'path_to_controlfile/%F'; 
restore controlfile from autobackup;
release channel ch1_tape;
}
You need to store the dbid somewhere otherwise i am afraid you are lost.

regards
Hrishy
Just curios,assuming that sbt channel is just a tape deivce and not a tape management system, how would rman know which file to request base on just a dbid? It got to be stored somewhere, but where?