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From: Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Another Newbie Question: How to restore data .bkp w/o info on 
 orig. db settings?
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:57:52 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 3, 1:37=A0pm, jfal...@socket.net wrote:
> First, I apologize for the dumb question. =A0We are not Oracle Gurus,
> but are given a dataset we need to examine before passing along. =A0In
> the past they gave us exp files and we figured out a way to get into
> them by adding all the usernames it asked for and then using the imp
> command to bring the db live. =A0This time a different company gave us
> there files, but they gave them to us in .bkp format. =A0There is are
> three folders(autobackup, backupset, onlinelog). =A0Under the first two
> there are subfolders with a date and inside a file with .bkp. =A0The
> thrird are 2 .log files. =A0I get from researching that I need to use
> the rman commands, but I don't know db names, dbid etc from the
> original. =A0Any links to how I should proceed? =A0Thanks for your help!

Hire a real Oracle DBA.
That's how I would proceed.
   Ed