On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:17:29PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > > > Once you have brought up a database in timeline N+1, you can't use it as > > > the base to recover to a point in timeline N because the data file > > > contents cannot be trusted to be identical to the way they were in > > > timeline N.
> > You mean "in timeline N ... to a point in timeline N+1", don't you? > Specifically not. The point is: you can't go back in time. Recovery is a > rollforward operation, so you must start at an earlier point and > rollforwards from there. Ok, that seems to be pretty intuitive. But could one extend the recovery mechanism such that one can go from PIT t_0 to PIT t_1 with t_1 > t_0 without re-restoring the original backup? Joachim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
