hi all, 

I am newbie to backup and storage domain and trying the understand certain 
concept of rman backup.

1) What is the difference between a hot backup and cold backup ?
2) how rman figures out that the given backup file belongs to which datafile, 
tablespace or database.
3) How it maps the rman blocks with the actual datafile blocks while restoring.

regards
deepak

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