RMAN duplicate from machine_A to machine_B

I tried to dup a test database on host A, and while I was looking for new datfiles to be created on host B, RMAN was trying to overwrite my production datafiles.
Obviously, I'm doing something very wrong.

In Oracle Note:73974.1, it has this section: 3.0 Make the Backups Available to Host B

3.1 Disk Backups
During restore, RMAN will expect the backup sets to be located in the same
directory as written to during the backup. For disk backups, the DBA can
accomplish this in many ways:

• set up an NFS directory, mounted on both host A and host B
• create the same directory structure on host A and host B
• use of symbolic links on host B

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  What does this mean? The backup set is in that directory. But how do the datafiles get to host B? I'm using the example in the manual. Has anyone accomplished this?

thanks in advance Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 14:08:56 CDT