I have successfully setup, backed up, restored, and recovered an oracle database using rman tdp for tsm. Now I'm looking for a document of some sort, or maybe someone could answer the following maintenance questions:
I'm running RMAN with no recovery catalog to tsm using the tdp: 1.) When you run RMAN without a recovery catalog, it stores backup info in the control file of the target database. How does syncing work with no recovery catalog? Because I'm not using a recovery catalog the: "tdposync" command won't work (I don't think it would work anyway). When the retention day has been crossed on the tsm server, is that backup record deleted from the control file/rman as well?. 2.) When I set the TSM retention policy for 50 days let's say, do I need to update that CONTROLFILE_KEEP parameter in the database's pfile for that long as well so the backup record in the control file doesn't get aged out? 3.) What role does the control file play with no catalog when you are using TSM as the MML?. 4.) What maintenance do I have to keep up with for RMAN when I'm using the current control file as the catalog and TSM as the MML? How can I keep them in sync? Thanks in advance --Justin Richard Bleistein
