Hi,
I was just reading the metalink Note:338607.1 for doing RMAN backup validation.

Executing these validation commands, eg..

RMAN> restore validate database;
RMAN> restore validate controlfile to 'c:\temp\control01.ctl';

Will this do a dummy restoration to some place....or does it just validates the backup ?

Just want to know what goes internally when these commands are fired.

Also how about the resource consumption on the machine when we issue these commands ?