| Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14191-01 |
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| Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14191-01 |
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You can start RMAN at the operating system command line without connecting to a database by issuing the RMAN command without any arguments. For example, enter:
% rman
If you did not specify the CMDFILE , SCRIPT or @ option at the command line, then RMAN displays the RMAN prompt:
RMAN>
After the RMAN prompt is displayed, you can issue further commands to connect to the target database, recovery catalog database, or auxiliary database.
If you start RMAN without specifying either CATALOG or NOCATALOG on the command line, then RMAN makes no recovery catalog connection. The first time a command is issued that requires the RMAN repository, RMAN performs the operation in NOCATALOG mode if you have not connected to a recovery catalog yet. After that point, the CONNECT CATALOG command can no longer be used without exiting and restarting the RMAN client.
