Validating Selected Backups

Validating specific backups checks whether these backups exist and can be restored. It does not test whether the set of available backups meet your recoverability goals. For example, image copies of data files for several tablespaces from your database may exist, each of which can be validated. If there are some tablespaces for which no valid backups exist, however, then you cannot restore and recover the database.

To validate selected backups:

1. On the Database Home page, click Availability to display the Availability subpage.

2. In the Availability page, in the Manage section, click Manage Current Backups.

   The Manage Current Backups page appears.

3. Use the search features on this page to identify the backups whose contents you want to validate.

4. Select the check boxes next to each backup of interest in the list of current backups, and then click Validate.

   The Validate: Specify Job Parameters page appears.

5. Specify a job name and description (or use the default values), and time settings for starting and repeating the operation. Click Submit Job.

   A message confirms the submission of the job.

6. Click the View Job link to display details about the validation.