Yes you can. If your database crashed due to some corruption reasons then you may want to apply logs just before the time when the crashed took place. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manjula Krishnan Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:08 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Recovery Scenario Say I have the following scenario. Day 1: Hot Backup - all files backup successfully Day 2: Hot Backup - one file does not back up Day 3: Database crashes Using Day 1 backup, can I restore to current time assuming I have all archive logs needed? Thanks, Manjula -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l