Just the way they've always done it. ________________________________ From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:10 PM To: Blanchard William Cc: Robert Freeman; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle 9i RMAN On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Blanchard William <William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I would much rather use an incremental strategy with compressed backupsets. However, I'm limited by what the other DBAs will agree to (we currently use cold and hot user-managed backups). Interesting. What is the justification for cold backups? -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist