Ron > Looking for recommendations for a good book on RMAN. > The book from Oracle Press is very good. If you mean Robert Freeman's great book Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery, I would heartily agree. I haven't heard that RMAN changed much between 9i and 10g, so this book is probably still very current. Robert posts on this list from time to time. Dennis Williams -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l