why not just use rman - quicker, more reliable, SUPPORTED, works, doesnt generate more redo and does what it says on the tin. And if you are generating too much redo, fix the problem so that you produce less or give yourself more disk space That thread on cdos kinda says what people think about that 'tool' On 9/8/05, Lou Fangxin <anysql@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why I pick it up is that I feel this utility is really useful in our > environments, we have so many databases, we always need to build standby > from primary, and the archive log generate so fast that we have no enough > space for archive log, so we must keep the standby recovery faster enough. >