...the ones specified in the RMAN channel definitions in effect at the time of the restore.
Regards, Neil Rasmussen Software Development Data Protection for Oracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/06/2004 12:55 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject RMAN handling of environment variables We are preparing to migrate our TSM server to a new platform. Some of our client systems use TDP for Oracle. Most of these perform a full backup of Oracle databases once per week and incremental backups at least once per day. This raises the interesting possiblity of ending up with a full backup on our old TSM server and some of the subsequent incremental backups on our new TSM server. RMAN channel definitions for use with TDPO generally include a parameter specifying the value of the TDPO_OPTFILE environment variable to be passed to TDPO. I am wondering what would happen with the following scenario: 1.We define a new TDPO options file. 2.We change the RMAN environment variable definition to point to the new options file. 3.We run one or more incremental backups. 4.We run a restore. When TDPO is called to restore a particular file, will the environment variables passed to TDPO be the ones in use when that particular file was backed up, or the ones specified in the RMAN channel definitions in effect at the time of the restore?