This seems to work best if you have lots of disk for your backup staging (FRA) area - in my testing with 11.1.0.6 EE it created an (compressed) L0 copy, an L1 copy *and* a complete uncompressed image, which surprised me . ie if the database is size n you need at least 2n of backup disk all the time... So it's workable only if you have disk to burn, and plan accordingly. cheers- Jeff Wong 2009/6/5 Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> > All, > > I'm having one heck of a brain dropout recently. I know that > there is a way to take a full backup on say Sunday and then incrementals > throughout the week and apply those to the original full backup, I just > can't find it in the manuals. Could someone please dump me a pointer?? > > *Dick Goulet* > Senior Oracle DBA > PAREXEL International > 900 Chelmsford St, Suite 310 > Lowell, MA 01821 > 978.614.2857 > *Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx* > > *The information transmitted in this communication is intended only for > the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential > and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or > other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by > persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you > received this in error, please destroy any copies, contact the sender and > delete the material from any computer.* > >