Sayed, Id suggest to take a look in the Data Guard concept and administration manual. There are step by step procedures in the docs. The documentation is quite good, actually. Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > Hello List, > > I earlier, created standby database using cold backup and it is > running without any issues. > However, now, I have task to created another standby database for one > of the critical database, using previous hot backups. > > I am just a little bit confused about this. > > Do anyone from the list has implemented this kind? > > Any refernece or steps would greatly helpful to me. > > > -- > Best Regards, > Syed Jaffar Hussain > 8i,9i & 10g OCP DBA > > I blog at :http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/oracle_ace/ace1.html#hussain > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l