I would like to ask a question about our Oracle Database backups. We have 7.6 NB Ent. server running on windows 2008. We have solaris v10 with our Oracle DB runninng on that. The backups are completed using RMAN with daily, weekly schedules files selections using templates. I checked and backups are completing sucessfully in NBU, and RMAN shows the backup completes successfully.
I'm currenlty creating a DR document. in the past i've done file level recoveries on windows and unix but never a DB recovery, knock wood. I didn't setup this environment (oracle db) and i'm not an Oracle DB admin. I'm unix/linux/windows guy monitoring and verifying job's complete on the backup server.
For the DB recovery process I open the "Backup, Archive and Restore" program on the NBU Enterprise server, change the server info and the policy type to Oracle. After clicking that i see the restore window open, i see in the "all folders" pane on the left side "Oracle" with a little db icon next to it, but clicking the + to expand the list, it does nothing. No options or files to choose to recover.
Again we use RMAN templates to facilitate oracle backups kicked off by a schedule on the NBU Enterprise server in turn starting "default application" policy backups.
My question is this: With the scneario I listed above, using the NBU archive and recovery app, should see files available for restore, or is the database restore also facilitated from the RMAN cli, solaris server?
I hope my quesiton makes sense.