That's part of the problem.  I'm not allowed near the RMAN process in
any format.  The DBA's claim it stores the media id.  This is why I'm
looking for some docs that explain the setup and the whatnots.

Thus spake scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com (scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com):

> 
> Are you sure RMAN stores the Media ID?
> 
> It's been a while since I have looked at this, but I thought it just kept the
> backup_id for each stream and what data was in it.  Then it was up to
> NetBackup to find where the backup_id was located and to recover it (this may
> involve changing copy 2 to be the npc if you're restoring from the duplicate).
> 
> 
> - Scott
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>   I'm currently using a bpduplicate script to create my offsite
> duplicates.  The DBA's I work with are convinced that a DR recovery of
> our databases won't work because RMAN stores the media ID of the tapes.
> 
>   Does anyone have a doc/pdf/faq I can printout that explains the
> scenario one way or another and exactly what if anything would be needed
> to recover an RMAN backup of an oracle database from duplicate tapes?  I
> kinda like having weekly offsites....
> 
> Robert
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> :wq!
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Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'