You can issue a recreate before copy completes.  You cannot issue a restore before the copy completes.  Mike
If I create a clone with the -copy flag and then activate it, can I do an establish again before it has finished a full copy?  Back story: We are going to be creating clones of very large Oracle databases (5 databases in a large RAC environment that take up a total of about 75Tb of disk).  I want to be able to recreate my clone and activate it quickly so we don't have to have a large window where we don't have a point in time copy available.  We plan on taking these databases and bringing them up on an alternate node to make sure we have a valid copy.  If there are any issues, we want to immediately recreate and reactivate the clones.      Oh and for bonus points...  can we recover from a clone before it finishes copying or do I have to wait for it to finish creating that full second copy before I can do a restore?
Re-establish clone while it is still syncing?