Use of Rman datafilecopy

From: Santhosh Kumar <brsanthu_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 11 Nov 2003 13:21:08 -0800
Message-ID: <9daf2a44.0311111321.7337cf8e@posting.google.com>

Hi...

As I understand, this command takes copy of a datafile (which might have been taken using hotbackup or cold backup) and puts down into backup sets and pieces in rman format.

I don't clear see why this step would be required? If you had a copy of a file, you could better off keep it and you can recover the (corrupted) datafile faster than restoring from the backup sets.

Thanks,
Santhosh. Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 15:21:08 CST