Additionally, with a DataGuard physical standby open read-only, you can copy the datafiles at the OS level and use them as the basis for a hot backup or a new standby. Carel-Jan Engel wrote: > Jacky, > Why on earth would you take a cold backup these days? > It is probably not a problem, the only issue I see is you have to > activate the database after mounting it as a standby database. I have > never tried it, though, because I cannot see the point of taking a cold > backup. So, again, why not take a hot backup? > > Best regards, > > Carel-Jan Engel [...] >> >>I've been asked what the ramifications of doing a cold backup on a >>physical standby database would be, rather than taking the primary >>database offline. [...] -- Mark Bole http://www.bincomputing.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l