Hi all,

DB: 10.2.03
O/S: RHEL 3

I have just attempted to backup a 3TB database using:

BACKUP DURATION 24:00 PARTIAL MINIMIZE LOAD DATABASE FORMAT '/rmandir/for/backups';

Now the backup has finished as the 24 hrs have now passed. I checked:

RMAN> list backup of database;

This shows only some of the files but not all. So it seems as 24 hrs was not enought to backup the whole database. Now if I was to re-run the backup with the same commands as before:

1/ Will the first backup be consistent/usable?
2/ Will it backup all the files or only the ones not available to RMAN?
3/ Is re-running the whole backup with the duration clause the best way to get a usable backup?

Thanks in advance,
Chucks