RE: rman incremental merge

What about the time between bringing the copy up to date as of the backup time and the current time? ...or if you want to restore to a point in time in the past and you don't have the archivelogs in the archive destination?

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From: Steiner, Randy [mailto:Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:39 PM
To: Stephens, Chris; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: rman incremental merge

Using this scenario, does it pay to backup the archived logs? Can't you just figure out a way to delete them without backing them up?  

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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Stephens, Chris
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:17 PM
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> Subject: RE: rman incremental merge
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>
> We use them here without a problem. ...we just recently had to
> recover a database to a point in time prior to olap going bizark.
> Works fine if you have the disk space.
>
> chris
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Don Seiler
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:12 AM
> To: Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com
> Cc: Jared Still; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Re: rman incremental merge
>
> The usage that I've seen and used is to start with a level 0, and from

> there on out you'd only take level 1 incrementals.
> Then, based on your recovery window, you could roll your base backup
> image forward, for example to 7 days ago, if that is your window. It
> saves you the time of not having to do another level 0, but having a
> recent level 0 image to start with for recovery.
>
> The reason I stopped using it is that you HAVE to do a backup COPY. I

> didn't have the disk to hold an actual copy, and needed to have
> compression.

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