This illustration describes performing media recovery using RMAN, with the RMAN client connected to a recovery catalog and a control file for RMAN repository data. A database administrator issues the following commands:

RESTORE DATABASE;
RECOVER DATABASE;

RMAN uses the record of backups in the repository to determine that the following tasks must be performed:

• Restore backup sets 1 and 2

• Apply incremental backup set 5

• Apply redo from archived redo log file 7

RMAN then starts a server session on the target instance, which performs the tasks.