I have been reading about duplicating a database using rman. We are doing our rman backups directly to tape using Netbackup media mangement. The target database (our production dB) and the duplicated database is seperated by 350 miles (563 kilo. if i did the math correctly).

What I'm trying to learn is if I can ship the tape to where the duplicated database will live, tell NB about the tape and then do the duplication process. I am not using a catalog when backing up the production database but I can change that easily if it makes a difference.

Any experience, insights? Has anyone "been there, done it"?
Thanks,
Frank