On Feb 1, 2008 1:28 PM, Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The presence of a long-running transaction before, during and after the > period of a backup would have no bearing on the archivelog requirements for > the recovery of that backup. Backups consist of data blocks, and capture > the physical state of the database, without regard to the state of > transactions. The inclusion of the UNDO_TABLESPACE or rollback segments in > the backup allows transactions that are incomplete at the time the recovered > database is opened to be rolled back. Thanks for this clarification. And yes, my response was incorrect. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l