RMAN Recovery Catalog

This article gives the steps to create the recovery catalog.

1. Identify the database where catalog needs to be created.

Here I am using rcvcat as the catalog database

2. Create the tablespace to store the catalog information.

SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE CATALOG_DATA
DATAFILE '/u01/oradata/rvcvat/catalog_data_01.dbf'
SIZE 500M;

3. Create the user that is going to be the catalog owner

SQL> CREATE USER RMAN
IDENTIFIED BY RMAN
DEFAULT TABLESPACE CATALOG_DATA
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP;

4. Grant the roles and the privileges

SQL> GRANT RESOURCE TO RMAN;
SQL> GRANT CONNECT TO RMAN;

SQL> GRANT RECOVERY_CATALOG_OWNER TO RMAN;

SQL> ALTER USER RMAN DEFAULT ROLE ALL;
SQL> ALTER USER RMAN QUOTA UNLIMITED ON RMAN_DATA;

5. Create the catalog

[oracle@naikh]$ rman catalog rman/rman@rvccat
RMAN> create catalog;

6. Register the target database

[oracle@naikh]$ export ORACLE_SID=orcl

[oracle@naikh]$ rman target / catalog rman/rman@rvccat

RMAN> register database;