RE: rman question

Essentially yes.

It knows about all the backups. It knows the state of the current database.

You are not describing your test case well enough to give a fuller answer.

Did you lose a data file? A couple of data files? The entire database including control files?

If I were you ( and I've done this), I would create a test database and go through recovery scenarious.

Delete a data file and write the Rman script to restore and recover it. Delete a couple of data files and do the same. Delete the entire database including control files. Perform an incomplete (point in time) recovery of one tablespace. Roll a database back to a prior point in time.

Get the idea?

Tom

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Zelli, Brian Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:21 PM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: rman question

So I've been putzing around with rman and now I have a list of backups. If I want to restore the very last copy of the db, all I have to do is issue a:

RMAN> recover database;

that's it? And it will take that last copy even though I have about 7 or 8 listed?

ciao,
Brian

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