Here is the log I get when I try and recover any part or the whole
database.

OS - Windows Server03
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Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production



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RMAN>

connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1125366970)

using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog



RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5>

Starting restore at 23-AUG-06

allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1

channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=159 devtype=DISK

released channel: ORA_DISK_1

RMAN-00571: ================================================== =========

RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============

RMAN-00571: ================================================== =========

RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 08/23/2006 14:52:02

ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:


ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library



RMAN>



Recovery Manager complete.
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What I get from that report is the Recovery Manager is trying to
recover the database from Tape. The backup is in the Flash Recovery
Area on a separate disk from the database on the same computer. I set
up the flash recovery area to be there and set the backups to go to the
flash recovery area. I didn't even configure the tape portion, and I
have had no problems backing up to disk, the backup of the database is
there. Note, I am a virgin to recovering a database, and I am using
Oracle Enterprise Manager to configure and to operate these procedures.
What is strange to me is when you configure the backup you can specify
a destination for the backup, but when you begin a restore there is no
way to specify a source for the backup. I can't find anywhere in
Enterprise Manager to configure where I want to restore from. Not a
location or a device such as from disk or tape. I'm not sweatting too
hard, this is a test database I'm using to get my feet wet. It doesn't
even need recovering, I just want to be sure I can do it, but this is
just kind of frustrating at the moment, and I know it's got to be some
easy thing. Also I am following instructions from an Oracle PDF called
2Day DBA, and that was the exact procedure for recovering, which came
after setting up backups and recovery and performing a backup. I also
should note I have enable archiving in the Recovery Settings.