What Is a Warm Restore?

The database server is in online, quiescent, or fast-recovery mode in a warm restore. Unless your database server has failed, you can restore noncritical storage spaces in a warm restore in the following circumstances:

• The storage space is online, but one of its chunks is offline, recovering, or inconsistent.
• The storage space is offline or down.

If the database server goes offline but the critical dbspaces are all right, bring the database server online and perform a warm restore. If the database server goes offline and a critical dbspace is down, perform a cold restore. For details, see What Is a Cold Restore?.

A warm restore can be performed after a dbspace has been renamed and a level 0 archive of the rootdbs and renamed dbspace is taken.