Use of backing up a single tablespace or datafile
696259May 7 2009 — edited May 7 2009Hello,
I am reading the RMAN manual and I'm quite familiar with backup up a tablespace or datafile, but I can find very few uses for that. Backup up a tablespace is useful for TPITR, but since that needs another instance its of very little use in most production environments. I think you cannot restore an old version of tablespace in a normal database, unless the tablespace has long been made read-only, in which case RMAN's optimizations will do the trick.
Even less use I can find for datafile backup. I have absolutely no idea what you can do with a single datafile.
Can you please clarify me on the uses of these RMAN features?
Thank you.