From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Oct 13 07:52:50 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9DCqoPc031502 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:52:50 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9DCqgvX031436 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:52:43 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 60CD71FD7BE; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:52:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26054-04; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:52:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id DC7B11FD4EB; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:52:33 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C5CFF4.AE5D71E8" Subject: Methods for testing RMAN backups? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:50:25 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Methods for testing RMAN backups? Thread-Index: AcXP9K9+9+dbrIvwRDqEvLVqajFd2A== From: "Vanessa A. Simmons" To: X-archive-position: 26902 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: vsimmons@hes.hmc.psu.edu Precedence: normal Reply-To: vsimmons@hes.hmc.psu.edu X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5CFF4.AE5D71E8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am getting ready to apply a patch to our databases and before doing so I need to test our RMAN backups to make sure I can get them all back in case there's a problem. Plus, it's just good practice to test the backups regularly anyway (BEFORE a disaster occurs). However, I haven't ever tested my backups before and want to see how others have done this. Thanks in advance, Vanessa ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5CFF4.AE5D71E8 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I am = getting ready=20 to apply a patch to our databases and before doing so I need to test our = RMAN=20 backups to make sure I can get them all back in case there's a = problem. =20 Plus, it's just good practice to test the backups regularly anyway = (BEFORE a=20 disaster occurs). However, I haven't ever tested my backups before = and=20 want to see how others have done this.

Thanks = in=20 advance,

Vanessa

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