How long will it take to transfer those 9000 logs and are they available? You may ne better doing an incremental backup On 27 Aug 2010 08:51, "Alessandro Lia" <a.lia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: another useful info: SQL> select count(*),applied from v$archived_log group by applied; COUNT(*) APPLIED ---------- --- 8895 NO so what GAP if no applied at all since it was restarted? what to do in this case? ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Niall Litchfield > To: a.lia@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Remigiusz Sokolowski > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:46 AM > Subje...