Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pawel.

Yes please do send me the script and other procedures that you are using.
My scenario is to backup database on live machine and restore it on the backup
machine on daily basis.

1- How do I know the backupset number, as when i used tdposync, it shows the dbf
files backedup?

2- Please correct me if i m wrong, tdposync command deactivates the databases
that we select, and these are then marked for deletion?

Kindest regards
Sandra

Pawel Wozniczka wrote:

> >Question is :
> >when i go about restore, how would i know which backup is being restored..
> the
> >active backup?? what would i need to do to restore any inactive backup??
>
> Hello
>
> As far as I know "rman" always uses the latest available backupsets, and
> there is no official and supported way to restore previous versions of a
> database.
>
> But, as usually, there is a trick that makes is possibile, I use it quite
> frequently in order to test & verify my oracle-tdp backups.
>
> The trick is based on the fact that if the "rman" finds that the latest
> backupsets are marked "unavailable" it will search its database backwards
> until available backupsets are found and those backupsets will be used for
> restore operations.
>
> To summarize:
>
> a) change status of  the rman backupsets that You do NOT want to be used to
> unavailable (change backupset xxx unavailable)
> b) restore database
> c) change status of the rman backupsets that were modified in step "a" back
> to available (change backupset xxx available)
>
> To make it easier I created a shell/rman script. (It's strongly hard-coded
> to my environment, but with a little effort can be adjusted to be useful in
> other environments).
>
> Please let me know whether You are interested, if yes I can send that script
> and try to assist in customizing it.
>
> kind regards
>
> Pawel W.
> pwozniczka@no_spam_kghm.pl