>Question is : >when i go about restore, how would i know which backup is being restored.. the >active backup?? what would i need to do to restore any inactive backup??
Hello As far as I know "rman" always uses the latest available backupsets, and there is no official and supported way to restore previous versions of a database. But, as usually, there is a trick that makes is possibile, I use it quite frequently in order to test & verify my oracle-tdp backups. The trick is based on the fact that if the "rman" finds that the latest backupsets are marked "unavailable" it will search its database backwards until available backupsets are found and those backupsets will be used for restore operations. To summarize: a) change status of the rman backupsets that You do NOT want to be used to unavailable (change backupset xxx unavailable) b) restore database c) change status of the rman backupsets that were modified in step "a" back to available (change backupset xxx available) To make it easier I created a shell/rman script. (It's strongly hard-coded to my environment, but with a little effort can be adjusted to be useful in other environments). Please let me know whether You are interested, if yes I can send that script and try to assist in customizing it. kind regards Pawel W. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
