Bill, What you can do is - Restore from backup - Mount DB - Recover until 6am. - Enable flashback. (Make sure you have enough room in flashback area) - Create an guaranteed named restore point. - Open resetlogs - let users do their changes To revert back and rollforward - startup force mount - flashback to named restore point created above. - Drop restore point (Guaranteed restored points needs to be dropped manually other it keeps using space in flashback area - Recover until next day 6am (rollforward) - Create an guaranteed named restore point. - Open resetlogs - let users do their changes Cheers, Vishal -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Wagman Sent: 20 November 2007 18:57 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Question re applying archive logs Greetings, We are trying to track down a problem which occurred a month ago and the developers have requested that I restore a database incrementally. This is Oracle 10gR2 and we are using RMAN to do backups. They wish the database be recovered and restored to 6:00am on a particular day, they will look at the data. They then want to see the state of the database 4 hours later. I have restored the database to 6:00am on that day and I have archive logs generated over the next 24 hour period. The database is in a consistent state and open now, how do I apply the next two archive logs? Can I do that? I haven't been able to figure it out. I hope I am stating the problem clearly. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l