In the documentation, it is refered to as Incrementally Updated Backups:
Rolling forward image copy backups.
It is a level 1 incremental that is applied to the image copy and rolled
forward to the point in time when the level 1 was created.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: Steiner, Randy
> Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: rman incremental merge
>
> On 12/4/06, Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Have people been using the incremental merge feature of
> rman successfully?
>
> It seems a little scary to me.
>
>
> By 'incremental merge', are you referring to restoring a
> database using incremental backups? (sorry, unfamiliar with this term)
>
> If so, consider this: why would that be any scarier than
> apply archive logs?
>
>
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