Good Morning to everyone, I thank you for your replies and information. It helped clear up a lot of = questions and has given me a solid direction to go in. Now just to convince MGT about the need to have a HA procedure in place. Thanks again, Ron >>> Sten Rognes <rognes@xxxxxxxxx> 05/27/05 11:11 PM >>> On May 27, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Ron Rogers wrote: > > 2. Currently I use RMAN nocatalog mode for the backups of the =20 > production =3D > database to disk. It appears from what I have read the when I use =20 > RMAN and =3D > Data Guard I have to use a catalog. IS this a true fact? Can you =20 > point to =3D > a doc that clears this question up? > If you run RMAN against your standby database and want to be able to =20 use the backup to recover your primary you need the catalog. There =20 are no other way for the primary to "know" about the backups created =20 on the standby. As long as you're running RMAN on the primary you are =20 fine running nocatalog. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96566/=20 rcmbackp.htm#446035 Sten __________ Sten Rognes Berkeley, CA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l