Rman starting

[amolik]

Hi All

I am new to RMAN (recovery manager) , however I now want to take a backup of user schema (say scott).
I have already created a user rman in my database and granted him RECOVERY_CATALOG_OWNER role.

When I run command 'rman catalog rman/rman@trydb'
it connects me to rman> (Message comes 'recovery catalog is not installed'). After that I said

rman> create catalog tablespace 'NM_TSP';

Here it fired an error that tablespace 'NM_TSP' does not exist. There fore I created a new tablespace called 'NM_TSP' and again gave the same command. Then it gave me the error
'Name is already used by an existing object. What is the problem with create catalog here?
Am I entering any wrong object. I have Oracle Documentation of RMAN but it doesn't tell much.
Do I need to specify the target database as well in the 'rman' command at command prompt command.

Amol

[ratcheer]

The RMAN documentation tells everything. Unfortunately, it tells it in the wrong order. The chapter on configuring RMAN is several chapters into it, well after the parts that are telling you how to use it.

Skim through the whole document, then give it a try.

You can start over by dropping the rman user and recreating it.

[joyce_ank]

Does anyone have a copy of the RMAN documentation.

Thanks

J

[sambavan]

http://technet.oracle.com/docs/produ...a76990/toc.htm

Sam