RMAN: Backup As Copy and COPY commands
489516Nov 14 2008 — edited Nov 14 2008I need a little clarification on the above commands. I am reading about Image Copies under the Using Recovery Manager chapter and there is an example which says: "If you manually allocate channels, you must include the COPY commands within the RUN statement as follows:
RMAN> RUN {
2> ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 type disk;
3> COPY
4> DATAFILE '/ORADATA/users_01_db01.dbf' to
5> '/BACKUP/users01.dbf',
6> ARCHIVELOG 'arc_1060.arc' to
7> 'arc_1060.bak';
8> }
Is COPY making an image copy that is not in an RMAN recognized format? Because was under the impression that BACKUP AS COPY command was the way to make an image copy usable by RMAN. Any clarification is always appreciated.
Matt