Re: rman incremental merge

its where rman can apply incremental backups that you are taking to a full backup you have already taken, so if you have to do a restore you only apply one backup and not all the incrementals you have taken (and then roll forward the archive logs since the last incremental)

a new 10g thing

On 04/12/06, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12/4/06, Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com> wrote:
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   By 'incremental merge', are you referring to restoring a database

> using incremental backups? (sorry, unfamiliar with this term)
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> If so, consider this: why would that be any scarier than
> apply archive logs?
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