Re: rman question

You can so a cold backup with rman, the database will be in mount state to do it. Just to a shutdown, startup mount and run a full of level 0 backup.

HTH,
Ruth
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> Hi Dear List,
>
> We are using unix shell script to cold backup our production right now
> and ftp the backupset to the test machine refresh the testing instance
> once a week.
> My question is if I decide to use rman instead shell script. How it
> works with cold backup? Can I using rman catalog to restore a production
> database to test database? Can I restore obsolete backups to another
> machine using rman? Sometimes we have to restore old backups on the test
> machine to debug a production problem.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Joan
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