Andrew replies: > I am pretty sure rman can cope with it. Seems like I have done this > myself. If not, you can definitely put in a 10g home and restore with that. Being paranoid, I was thinking of possible issues like auto-registering with a listener once the restored 10g DB was opened and how that listener might or might not cope with it. Thus, the restore to a different box idea. Now I want to try that...no, no time... :) Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l