Folks, Im trying to implement Transportable Tablespaces using Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 and ASM. Because the database is using ASM, its my understanding that I must use RMAN to extract tablespace data to a physical file for copying over to the target instance as there are not the typical O/S database files to copy over as in a non-ASM setup. Im initially implementing this using a development database that is in NO ARCHIVE LOG MODE. The target tablespaces are all in read-only mode. When I execute the RMAN Transport Tablespace command, it fails because the database is in NO ARCHIVE LOG MODE (see below). Now, I completely understand why RMAN would want the database to be in ARCHIVE LOG MODE if it was doing a point-in-time recovery, or something like that, but considering the fact that all the tablespaces in my transportable tablespace set are in read-only mode, RMAN shouldnt need prior backups, archive logs, etc to construct a current image of the tablespaces. I was wondering if anyone knew of any work-around without having to put the database in ARCHIVE LOG MODE. RMAN> TRANSPORT TABLESPACE TTS_FACT_DATA, TTS_FACT_DATA_2010, TTS_FACT_DATA_2011, TTS_FACT_DATA_2012, TTS_FACT_DATA_2013, TTS_FACT_INDEX_2010, TTS_FACT_INDEX_2011, TTS_FACT_INDEX_2012, TTS_FACT_INDEX_2013 2> TABLESPACE DESTINATION '/home/spa/rick/' 3> AUXILIARY DESTINATION '/home/spa/rick/'; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of transport tablespace command at 03/08/2013 14:55:35 RMAN-05004: target database log mode is NOARCHIVELOG RMAN> Thanks for your time and feedback, Rick -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l