RMAN Backup & Restore Review

I have seen many backup reviews without any information on Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

The environment I am reviewing has backup to tape only.

Here is the RMAN script I am using. Since I don’t know RTO and RPO, I chose an arbitrary RPO.

--- Did not specified device since it is configured from RMAN
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO 'SBT_TAPE';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS  'SBT_LIBRARY=';


$ cat /tmp/restore_validate_$ORACLE_SID.out

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Apr 27 12:02:26 2021

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

RMAN> spool log to restore_validate.log
2> set echo on
3> connect target;
4> show all;
5> list backup by file;
6> restore spfile validate;
7> restore controlfile validate;
8> restore database until time "TRUNC(sysdate)+1/24" validate preview summary;
9> report schema;
10> exit

There are six development databases on the host.

After running restore validate here are pertinent results from mining the log.

The following databases do not look to have successful restore since there is referenced to disk.

What do you think is required from disks for restore?

$ grep "scanning archived log" restore_validate*.log|grep ORA_DISK|awk -F ":" '{print $1}'|sort -u
restore_validate_DEVAAAD.log
restore_validate_DEVAAAQ.log
restore_validate_DEVBBBD.log
restore_validate_DEVBBBQ.log

Here is the crontab entries for archived log backup and the time restore testing was performed.

--- Restore until time TRUNC(sysdate)+1/24 will failed since archived logs are backed up every 12H.

FAILED: 
--- Archived logs backup starts 12:30. Restore test started at 10:35; hence, archived logs on disk is required.
30 0,12 * * * /home/oracle/bin/rman_backup.sh DEVAAAD arch
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           38478 Apr 27 10:05 restore_validate_DEVAAAD.log

--- Archived logs backup starts 12:55. Restore test started at 12:48; hence, archived logs on disk is required.
55 0,12 * * * /home/oracle/bin/rman_backup.sh DEVAAAQ arch
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           33440 Apr 26 12:48 restore_validate_DEVAAAQ.log

--- Archived logs backup starts 12:10. Restore test started at 12:02; hence, archived logs on disk is required.
10 0,12 * * * /home/oracle/bin/rman_backup.sh DEVBBBD arch
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           16152 Apr 26 12:02 restore_validate_DEVBBBD.log

--- Archived logs backup starts 12:10. Restore test started at 11:45; hence, archived logs on disk is required.
10 0,12 * * * /home/oracle/bin/rman_backup.sh DEVBBBQ arch
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           50474 Apr 22 11:48 restore_validate_DEVBBBQ.log


PASSED:
--- Archived logs backup starts 12:55. Restore test started at 13:22.
55 0,12 * * * /home/oracle/bin/rman_backup.sh DEVAAAU arch
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           38967 Apr 26 13:22 restore_validate_DEVAAAU.log

--- Archived logs backup starts 12:10. Restore test started at 12:16.
10 0,12 * * * /home/oracle/bin/rman_backup.sh DEVBBBU arch
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   dba           43777 Apr 27 12:16 restore_validate_DEVBBBU.log

Is it acceptable to lose up to 12H of data?