8 RMAN Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery (TSPITR)
Recovery Manager (RMAN) automatic tablespace point-in-time recovery (commonly abbreviated TSPITR) enables you to quickly recover one or more tablespaces in an Oracle database to an earlier time, without affecting the state of the rest of the tablespaces and other objects in the database.
This chapter explains when you can and cannot use TSPITR, what RMAN actually does to your database during TSPITR, how to prepare a database for TSPITR, how to run TSPITR, and options for controlling the TSPITR process.
This chapter contains the following sections:
