Best Practices for Restoring Data

The following are best practices that you can use when restoring data:

To restore the control file, select the ~CONTROLFILE icon. The restore process saves the control file as CONTROL.SIDNAME in the option home directory. You can then use the MS-DOS copy command to copy the restored control file to the appropriate directory.
Important! You must overwrite all default database control files with the restored one. Use this format: copy CONTROL.ORCL path\ctl1ORCL.ORA

For example:
```
copy CONTROL.ORCL <path>\ctl1ORCL.ORA
```
For more information on restoring a control file, see the Oracle Server Administrator’s Guide.
To restore either the system tablespace or a tablespace containing rollback segments, you must shut down the database and perform a full database restore.
To restore an older session of a tablespace, click Recovery Point and select the session you want to restore. After you have selected, click OK and finish the rest of the restore procedure.
If your current control files and the archived redo log files are not damaged, you may not want to recover the backed up control files and overwrite the current control files. Keeping the current control files allows you to restore your database to the latest usable version before a crash has occurred.