At 06:25 AM 12/14/2004, stephen booth wrote: >In this case they want *hourly* backups of the database to minimise >dataloss. I told them that with the redo logs I can use the previous >night's backup and roll forward to any point in time before the >failure, but see above comments about managers. If they want hourly backups, actually unconditionally, they should use rman. Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation http://www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l