HI Gurus,

Our working environment is Oracle 8.1.7 on windows NT. The database is on
nonarchive mode since it doesn't have to be up and running 24/7. The db
size is about 30Gb.

Now three days a week I shutdown the database and backup all
file in the orant8/oradata/ files. Also I do a full export everyday.

I want to test the restore in another machine. What are the things I need to
prepare before doing such test.
Basically I want someone to direct me on this as I never done something like
this before.

Thank you so much!

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