Hemant, Well, I guess that's my point. In my view, using Rman to accomplish this "requirement" by your management is the wrong selection. If they have this kind of a requirement, then you need another solution - like maybe a flat table dump of all tables within your database. Good Luck Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:35 AM To: thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog If I have to restore a 9i Database, 5 years from now, I would need the Hardware and OS that supports it and also the 9i ORACLE_HOME. My organisations's backup strategies do try to consider OS and Oracle versions but cannot guarantee hardware availability ! Hemant At 11:26 PM Wednesday, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: >Hemant, > >You have to admit that this may never be available. Think about it. >You will be migrating to new releases about 4 times between now and 5 >years from now. Rman version 13x would probably choke and puke anyway >when it tried to restore the version 9i controlfile! :) > >Tom Mercadante >Oracle Certified Professional > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:10 AM >To: thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: RMAN-NetBackup without an RMAN Catalog > > > >What I would like to be able to do is ... 5 years from now, restore >_todays_ backup. Wouldn't I be able to use [then, in 2009], SET UNTIL >"13-OCT-04" and RESTORE CONTROLFILE ? > >The "contradiction" I saw was in the Support Analyst's first point " .. >its too far away" and then second point "there's no limit with SET >UNTIL ...". > >Hemant Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l