When restoring protected databases using backups stored on Recovery Appliance, a full backup is created from the corresponding virtual backup. The Recovery Appliance catalog is used to determine the most appropriate full virtual backup that can be used, based on the point-in-time specified for the recovery. The Recovery Appliance receives the restore request, constructs the physical backup sets from the appropriate virtual backups, and then sends these backup sets to the protected database through the SBT channels that was allocated earlier. On the protected database, RMAN validates the received backup sets and uses them to perform the restore operation. The RMAN RESTORE command enables you to restore protected databases using Recovery Appliance.

When the RMAN RECOVER command is used, the Recovery Appliance catalog is used to determine the appropriate archived log backups that are required to recover the restored data files to the desired point in time. Frequent level 1 incremental backups reduce the number of archived redo logs that need to be applied in case of a failure and this reduces recovery time. Recovery Appliance sends the required backups to the protected database which uses them to recover to a consistent point and to be subsequently opened. If real-time redo transport is configured for the protected database, then the most current archived redo logs are available and the database can be completely recovered with only sub-seconds worth of data loss.