Have it on a mirrored array and split the array. Then copy from the split, run all the preclone, then clone from that. ----- Original Message ----- From: ora-apps-dba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <ora-apps-dba-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sun Aug 12 20:10:01 2007 Subject: Oracle apps Hot Cloning Dear all, Recently i had attened an interview. In that I was asked by "How you will do hot cloning of your apps production Instance?". We can take hot backup for the database. But how we do for the application?. Please enlight me. Rgds, Nirmalkumar. Best Regards, Nirmalkumar Muthukumaran. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ****************************************************************************** This email contains confidential and proprietary information and is not to be used or disclosed to anyone other than the named recipient of this email, and is to be used only for the intended purpose of this communication. ******************************************************************************