We have a scheduled (by cron) shutdown/coldbackup/startup daily @ 3:00 PM when no DB backups are running....and the backup is system copied to tape daily .... With that and archive logs, we feel comfortably sure we could restore it and our production databases with it. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Henslee, Jeff Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:53 PM To: carmen.rusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: rman: how do you backup the recovery catalog database? I (personally) take exports of my recovery catalog database after all = =3D backups are complete and include them in my Unix File System Backups. I =3D also compress the export dumps and copy them to servers across town for =3D DR purposes. -----Original Message----- From: Carmen Rusu [mailto:carmen.rusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:53 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: rman: how do you backup the recovery catalog database? Which is a better method to backup the recovery catalog?=3D20 By logical or physical backup? Horror stories? Good ones? rcat db 10.2.0.3 os Linux SUSE 8 target dbs 9.2.0.4 and 8.1.7.4 os: SunOS 2.8 Thanks, Carmen Rusu DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l