Validating Backups and Testing Your Backup Strategy

Validating Backups and Testing Your Backup Strategy
As part of your backup strategy, you should periodically check whether your backups
are intact and can be used to meet your recoverability objectives. You can validate
your backups in the following ways:
■ Select specific backup sets or image copies in RMAN and validate them. This
technique indicates if a backup exists and can be restored. For this form of
validation, use the steps described in "Validating Selected Backups" on page 9-24.
■ Specify database files and let RMAN select backups to use when restoring those
files, as it would for an actual restore operation. This technique ensures that your
available backups are sufficient to restore the database. For this form of validation,
use the steps described in "Validating Backups for Restore Operations" on
page 9-25.
You can perform both forms of validation using RMAN. You should incorporate both
forms of validation into your backup strategy to ensure that your recoverability goals
are met by your available backups.
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