Hi pani 200g databases that create 50g of redo a day are good candidates for incremental backups. Well actually on modern hardware i'm probably an order of magnitude out. On Mar 19, 2010 12:11 PM, "Pani Babu" <panibabu.mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: The incremental backup topic raises an interesting question for me. I am yet to appreciate the usefulness of incremental backups. I always use a periodic(daily or weekly) fullback and rely on archived logs for any restores. If you use incremental backups, do you use them just for large databases? I am curious to see how prevalent is the incremental in everyone's backup strategy. Pani