My backup copies are nearly done downloading since yesterday. I was going to attempt a restore to win2k of a solaris backup, but I am beginning to wonder if that was just a pipe dream.

I know you can rename datafiles during recovery so it seems kind of important to save the dba_data_files output while backing up.

But I am not sure its going to work. If its just reading and writing Oracle blocks then it may.

I doubt it works...these are files written to solaris so its prolly not going be able to read that format from a windows rman utility.