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From: rupa@firemail.de (Roman Klesel)
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Subject: Re: [RMAN] backup to disk
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:28:25 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:48:35 GMT, Brian Peasland
<dba@remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote: >> when RMAN next time will
do a backup it might not find its previous dumps >> and mark
those files as missing in the controlfile ( target / nocatalog).
>> I'm worried that when I then restore them from tape RMAN will
tell: > >RMAN won't go looking for an older backup piece until
you do one of two >things....restore using that backup piece, or
perform a CROSSCHECK >operation. The next backup will not be
looking for the older backup >pieces.

Thanks everyone for your insights.

That's what I suspected too.

I'll go for it.

Roman