I am attempting to clone a production oracle database that is 760G to a new partition on the same host. I would like to be able to do the clone without having any production outages. Does anyone have any opinions of what the best way to accomplish this? The ideas I've come up with are RMAN duplicate, RMAN image copy, or put the database in backup mode and do OS copy commands. However, I've tried RMAN duplicate and because of the size of the database, and the thus the time it takes to clone the database, this doesn't seem to be the best method. Anyone else have any better ideas? Lara Nichols Cal Poly State University 805-756-6214 nichols@xxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l