Re: RMAN frustration

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:16:48 +1100
Message-ID: <3EVZ9.36169$jM5.92013@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

"Holger Baer" <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de> wrote in message news:3E37FFF0.40804_at_science-computing.de...
> Hartmut Inerle wrote:
> > Rogbaker wrote:
> >
> >> run {
> >> allocate channel disk1 type disk format
> >> 'c:\rmanbakup\backup_012803';
> >> backup database;
> >> sql 'ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT':
> >> }
> >
> >
> > You are doing here a full backup solution. For a Point-in- time recovery
> > is a incremental backup solution necessary.
> >
> > And I didn't see and archivelogs in the backup. Have a look in the
> > documentation for the prerequesites for the point in time recovery.
> >
> > regards
> > Hartmut Inerle
> >

> Could you please explain this a bit further? It's my understanding
> that after a full backup I can restore to virtually any point in time
> after the backup, since basically all I need are the rman backupset
> and the archivelogs.

Your understanding is correct, and incremental backups have got nothing to do with it. I'm not sure what point what Hartmut was making, but taking it at face value, he's wrong.

Regards
HJR Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 13:16:48 CST