I'll skip the backup remark because, well it's indefensible really. On the other hand isn't this actually quite a testament to the quality of early 10g RAC? On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Agreed, but I was surprised to find a customer recently that has a > single database (it's a 2-node RAC) that was installed on RH 3 and > 10.1.0.3 about 3 years ago and they've never done any patches, upgrades, > or DB maintenance to the system in that period > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info