Why do you want to backup Oracle? Oracle is like soviet cars : by nature they used to be perfect, so there was no needs for spare part. We all use Oracle here for we have an absolute confidence in it. People who do not trust their DB use SQL server. B. Polarsk http://www.smenu.org From: Luc Demanche [mailto:lucdemanche@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, 22 May, 2006 3:00 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Backups of AS10G Hi DBAs, I would like to have some advices about your backup and recovery processes for you Application Server 10G