Restore of autobackup controlfile fails to a new server (4044268)

Date: Jun 2009
Product & Version: NVBU 8.x
OS Version: Any
Module & Version: Oracle APM 5.x
Application version: Oracle Any


Symptoms:
When using a CLI restore of an autobackup controlfile to a new server with no catalog the restore fails after searching 7 days of history:

RMAN> restore controlfile from autobackup;

NetVault --- MMS SBT sbtinit method.
NetVault --- SBT sbtinit2
allocated channel: c1
channel c1: sid=156 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel c1: NetVault Oracle APM v.6.0.17

Starting restore at 24-JUN-09

channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090624
channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090623
channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090622
channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090621
channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090620
channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090619
channel c1: looking for autobackup on day: 20090618
channel c1: no autobackup in 7 days found
NetVault --- SBT sbtend
released channel: c1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 06/24/2009 17:42:53
RMAN-06172: no autobackup found or specified handle is not a valid copy or piece