Production server Incremental Backup is restoring in Testing server

Dear All,
Currently our Production database is running in windows 2003 server , Oracle version is 10.2.0.4.0
Now my question is daily incremental backup of production server will be restored in testing server (same configuration in production server
and testing server ) how can i achieve this .....
Regards,
S.Arun

Hi Oradba,
Thanks for your response. I went through the link and we need this only for testing purpose and not for reporting.
We need to take incremental backup and restore it in testing server. Is it possible to do this without RMAN.(Due to some Business reasons)
Thanks & Regards,
S.Arun

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