<<Back to Oracle Backup & Recovery Main Page How to Restore and Recover a Database on a New Host with a Different Directory Structure from Tape backup Step1> Install oracle software (same version as old host) on new host To perform binary installation you can refer below post Oracle 12c Software Only Installation in Silent Mode Step2> Apply required patches Step3> set environmental variables export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome1 export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin export ORACLE_SID=ORCL1P Step4> Create initfile create init file under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs with db_name parameter in it. cat $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initORCL1P.ora db_name=ORCL1P Step5> invoke rman as follows invoke RMAN connect to target and catalog database. set dbid you want to restore rman target / catalog rman/xxxxxx@catalogdb RMAN> set dbid=915313462; Step6> restore spfile as pfile run { allocate channel ch1 DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=??_db....
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