Good call Dan! Nothing like getting the backup systems all working and then trying to get all the recurrent jobs rescheduled from memory! Also, on Unix and Lx freewrites of unix, .login, .profile, .bash, and all those . files in the various users, including things they include, which may be in other directories. Losing all your convenient shorthand can be really frustrating. On things from Microsoft, a listing of the environment variables of the various important user accounts and the settings in the services administration for the various things that Oracle sets up. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Fink Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:39 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Backup Checklist Custom script directory(ies) - anything called by cron, dbms_scheduler, or ad-hoc for database support ------- Original Message ------- On 3/14/2011 3:19 PM Howard Latham wrote: Does anyone have a backup checklist for Oracle Files not held in the database that wont get backed up by RMAN. Eg Oratab tnsnames.ora listener.ora init.ora maybe alertlog if not can we put one togesther? -- Howard A. Latham Sent from my Nokia N97 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l