allocateForMaint

Syntax

Purpose

To allocate a channel in preparation for issuing a change or crosscheck command. The maintenance and delete options, which are completely synonymous, specify the device type appropriate for the file whose status you are changing.

Requirements

• Execute this command only at the RMAN prompt.

• Issue an allocate channel for delete or allocate channel for maintenance command before issuing the following:
  • change backupset ... delete

  • change backuppiece ... delete

  • change backupset ... crosscheck

  • change backuppiece ... crosscheck

  • crosscheck

• Do not specify a channel id.

• You must release an allocated channel before you can allocate a new one, that is, you cannot allocate multiple maintenance channels.

• You cannot allocate a maintenance channel to a multi-threaded server (MTS) session.

Keywords and Parameters

See "allocate".

Examples

Deleting a Backup Piece

This example deletes a backup piece from the media management catalog:

allocate channel for maintenance type 'sbt_tape';
change backuppiece '/oracle/dbs/01aj3q5012' delete;
release channel;

Marking a File Unavailable

This example crosschecks the backup set with primary key 828:

allocate channel for maintenance type disk;
change backupset 828 crosscheck;
release channel;

Related Topics

"allocate"

"change"