On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 3. Dataguard > I suspect this will not work as well, due to the 32/64 bit platform differences. Though I have not used DG, I have tried to restore a 64 bit database to a 32 bit platform. Datafiles are OK, but it breaks down at the application of archivelogs, which would seem to rule out DG. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist