Brandon, you're right, and many thanks for the correction. Sorry the bad info. I have not exercised this scenario (and I must to). >Regardless of your controlfile_keep_record_time, you wouldn't necessarily *lose* your old backup entries. Assuming you have saved your old controlfile backups (e.g. you have the retention set correctly on your tape backup), you could always restore an old controlfile to view the old backups. Regards, Brandon -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l