At this point what I think you would find beneficial is to stop speculating and start testing. :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Orlando L <oralrnr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks. I wonder how it can restore to previous Friday if a base backup > gets taken Sunday night. I thought it would restore base backup first and > then apply incremental on the top of that base backup. I thought the > backups taken before base backup were useless and cannot be used to restore > to a point in time in last week, even if recovery window of 7 days is > specified. ie, in this example, wanting to go back to last Friday on a given > Monday, with a base backup on Sunday. > > >