Re: Need some help understanding RMAN with full and incremental backups

RMAN can do full backups, level 0 which are full but for use in a strategy using incremental backups, serveral levels of incremental backups which contain changes since the last full or lower level incremental.

To recover a database you need a full or level 0 backup and all archive logs since the backup was done, or incremental backups taken after the level 0 and all archive logs since the last incremental was done.

If this doesn't answer your question let me know, Ruth
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Tyson <tomtysonjr_at_yahoo.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: Need some help understanding RMAN with full and incremental backups

> Hello
>
> I am trying to determine what a full backup in RMAN is, and incremental.
Also,
> if you were to loose your target database completely, but you had the
recovery
> catalog what types of backups would you need to completely recover the
target
> database? Can you recover if you just do level 0 backups (is that a full
> backup?). Anyways, just a little confused on this, and could use some
helpful
> hints on this.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Tom Tyson
>
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Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 13:08:19 CDT