Setting Up Backup Polling to Migrate Existing Backups to the Recovery Appliance
This section describes how to migrate protected database backups that are currently stored in a polling location to the Recovery Appliance storage. A polling location is a file system directory on shared storage, outside the Recovery Appliance, that stores backup pieces and archived redo log files for a protected database. The Recovery Appliance polls this location at specified intervals, retrieves any new backups, and stores them on the Recovery Appliance.
To import existing backup sets by configuring a polling location: