Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) schrieb: > The traditional (Oracle suggested) way is to have a second Rman catalog > on a different database server. This catalog is used by the first Rman > database. > > Another way is to simply export the Rman catalog when no backups are > running and save the export file someplace safe. export with 'consistent=y' should work even with backups running. i backup the catalog db with 'rman nocatalog' and backup the controlfile afterwards with 'alter database backup controlfile'. regards, -ap -- Andreas Piesk a.piesk@xxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l