Also, would 'BACKUP VALIDATE DATABASE ARCHIVELOG ALL' be suggested instead prior to the actual backup or is this excess? On 4/3/12 2:07 PM, "Anthony Ballo" <anthony.ballo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Thanks Michael - that's also what I had mentioned. My question would be do >you perform each of these statements as part of your daily RMAN backup >script(s) ? > >Anthony > > > > > > > >On 4/3/12 1:57 PM, "Michael Dinh" <mdinh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Bottom Line : The RESTORE DATABASE VALIDATE doesn't confirm that the >>restored database is recoverable. You must separately run RESTORE >>ARCHIVELOG ... VALIDATE ! > > >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l