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Restore Oracle Objects in the Oracle Fail Safe Environment

Use the following procedure to restore the Oracle objects in the Oracle Fail Safe Environment. With Oracle Fail Safe, you can reduce downtime for single-instance Oracle databases. For more information about the Oracle Fail Safe, refer the Oracle Documentation.

To restore in the Oracle Fail Safe environment

1. Open the Restore Manager and select a restore option.

   If you choose Restore by Tree, select the source you want to restore and a backup version on the Source tab. If you choose Restore by Session, select the sessions for the tablespace on the Source tab.

2. Click the Destination tab and select a destination. You can restore either to the original location or server, or to an alternative location or server.
   • If you are restoring to the original location, you need not specify a path. Ensure that the Restore files to the original locations is selected.
   • If you are restoring to a specific node in the Oracle Fail Safe Group, clear the Restore files to the original locations option. Next, in the Destination tab of the Restore Manager, locate and select the Oracle database directory in the node to which you want to restore.
   • If you are performing a system tablespace restore or full database restore in the Oracle Fail Safe Manager, select the Policies tab. Ensure that you select the Do not restart the resource on the current node option under the Restart Policy and uncheck If the resource fails and is not restarted, fail over the group in the Failover Policy option.

   After changing the policies mentioned above, shutdown the database using SQL*Plus command.

   Note: The Oracle Instance Service will shut down as configured in the Policy Tab timeout. After restore, the Oracle Instance Service must start automatically; else you must start it manually.

3. Click Submit on the toolbar.

   The Submit Job dialog opens

4. Schedule the job to run now or later.

   Verify or change the user name and password for the Oracle Fail Safe Group tablespace and the Microsoft Cluster Server.

   Click OK.

The job is submitted. You can monitor the job on the Job Status Manager.

Note: If you want to restore on a remote machine use the Restore to Alternative Location option, ensure that you perform the backup and restore operation on the machine that has the Oracle Database Instance.