All, I'd appreciate your thoughts and input. I'm putting together a 1 or 2 day seminar on advanced RMAN. My problem is that I'm having trouble deciding exactly WHAT advanced RMAN is and what would be covered in such a topic (one man's advanced is another mans daily routine). Anyone want to provide some input? Thanks!! RF Robert G. Freeman Author: Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press)