Verify your database server configuration

During a cold restore, you cannot set up shared memory, add chunks, or change tape devices. Thus, when you begin the restore, the current database server configuration must remain compatible with, and accommodate, all parameter values assigned after the time of the most recent backup.

For guidance, use the copies of the configuration file that you create at the time of each backup. However, do not set all current parameters to the same values as were recorded at the last backup. Pay attention to the following three groups of parameters:
  • Shared-memory parameters
  • Mirroring parameters
  • Device parameters