Ensure that the following prerequisites are met before you use backups stored on Recovery Appliance to restore and recover your protected database:

• The protected database must be enrolled and registered with the target Recovery Appliance.

  This is important if you have multiple Recovery Appliances or a Data Guard environment where primary and standby backs up to different Recovery Appliances.

• Backups required to restore and recover the protected database must be stored on the Recovery Appliance. When performing point-in-time recovery, you can recover to any point within the recovery window defined for the protected database.

• The Oracle wallet containing credentials used to authenticate with the Recovery Appliance must be configured on the protected database.

• Configure or allocate RMAN SBT channels that correspond to the Recovery Appliance backup module. The examples in this chapter assume that an SBT channel is configured for Recovery Appliance.

  It is recommended that you configure channels using the RMAN CONFIGURE command because these settings are persistent settings. However, you can override the configured channel settings by using the ALLOCATE CHANNEL command within the RUN block that performs the backup or recovery operation.