its where rman can apply incremental backups that you are taking to a full backup you have already taken, so if you have to do a restore you only apply one backup and not all the incrementals you have taken (and then roll forward the archive logs since the last incremental) a new 10g thing On 04/12/06, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/4/06, Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?