Hi, one question about that - why was the database taken down at all. If you took a hot backup and starting sending the archives right away - why the shutdown? Chers - Dave On 5/31/05, Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jackie, > A couple of years ago I was able to move a database of 90 GB from > Singapore to The Hague, using Data Guard, through only a 128 kilobit > dual ISDN dial up line. The downtime of the database was 45 minutes. Of > course this was in ASYNC mode, logtransfer by ARCH. >=20 > The trick was calculating the average amount of redo produced weekly, > and have enough bandwidth for just that. The outage was planned > carefully, including stopping / starting the apps it took 1.5 hour. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l