Hi Alisher, > You can look at Transportable Tablespaces feature. > (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/tspaces.htm#i1007197) Thanks for the idea! Since getting Production downtime for the READ ONLY portion doesn't make sense for us, I'd be looking at using RMAN. but even then it looks like I'd need to also include the index tablespaces? I'm not completely discounting it just yet though. Thanks again! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l