RE: rman incremental merge

From: Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:04:44 -0500
Message-ID: <25DB25D17E384D40B6F37EDA0DDD0C33121771@NYCTEXVS05.transit.nyct.com>

In the documentation, it is refered to as Incrementally Updated Backups: Rolling forward image copy backups.

It is a level 1 incremental that is applied to the image copy and rolled forward to the point in time when the level 1 was created.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: Steiner, Randy
> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Re: rman incremental merge
>
> On 12/4/06, Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com> wrote:
>
> Have people been using the incremental merge feature of
> rman successfully?
>
> It seems a little scary to me.
>
>
> By 'incremental merge', are you referring to restoring a
> database using incremental backups? (sorry, unfamiliar with this term)
>
> If so, consider this: why would that be any scarier than
> apply archive logs?
>
>
> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
>

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