In general, yes you can.

How were you planning to perform the bcv split?  The
normal ways are to either shutdown Oracle (cold backup)
or put Oracle into backup mode (hot backup).  Either way,
once restored you can force oracle into recovery mode and
roll forward through any logs.  Yes, you will have to run
in archive-log mode.

Rick

On 13 Aug 2001, at 20:52, E. J. wrote:

> I have an Oracle DB on Sun in an EMC with Timefinder.
> The plan is to use Timefinder to create BCV's of the
> DB and then back up the BCV's to TSM.  Question:  How
> can I use the BCV's and still provide the ability to
> restore to the most recent point in time?  If the
> entire database is backed-up by attaching the BCV's to
> a Backup Server then out to TSM, can the redo logs
> created on the DB Server be applied to the full DB
> backup taken via the BCVs and Backup Server?
>
> EJ
>
>
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