Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference

Name

CHANGE

Synopsis

Enables you to perform maintenance on backup sets or their associated backup pieces. Maintenance can take the form of:

• Changing the status repository records for backup sets and backup pieces

• Deleting backup pieces from disk or tape media, which would also remove the associated records from the target database’s control files and from the optional recovery catalog

Oracle9i syntax

CHANGE 
   { { BACKUP | COPY } [OF listObj]
      [mntQualifer [mntQualifer]...] 
   | recordSpec 
      [DEVICE TYPE deviceSpecifier [, deviceSpecifier]...]
   }
   { AVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | UNCATALOG | keepOption } 
   [DEVICE TYPE deviceSpecifier [, deviceSpecifier]...];

Oracle8i syntax

CHANGE 
   { ARCHIVELOG 
      { primary_key [, primary_key...] 
      | 'filename' [,'filename' ...] }
   | arhivelogRecordSpecifier
   | BACKUPPIECE { 'media_handle' [,'media_handle' ...]
                  | primary_key [, primary_key ...]
                  | TAG [=] [']tag_name['] }
   | BACKUPSET primary_key [, primary_key ...]
   | { CONTROLFILECOPY | DATAFILECOPY }
     { primary_key [, primary_key ...] 
     | 'filename' [,'filename' ...]
     | TAG [=] ['] tag_name ['] [, ['] tag_name 
         ['] ... ] }
   | PROXY { 'media_handle' [,'media_handle' ...]
           | primary_key [, primary_key ...]
           | TAG [=] [']tag_name['] }
   } 
   { DELETE | AVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE 
   | UNCATAOG | CROSSCHECK };

Keywords

AVAILABLE

Changes the status of backups or copies to AVAILABLE.

UNAVAILABLE

Changes the status of backups or copies to UNAVAILABLE. Backups marked as UNAVAILABLE are not used by RMAN. Therefore, a subsequent recovery operation will look for ...