Thank you for all of the responses. Jay Hostetter -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:11 PM To: jwilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l List Subject: Re: FRA That was pretty much where I was coming from, assuming that you have decided to go with disc as a backup medium. In early versions the auto space management didn't work as advertised. Implementing an FRA for backups and recovery policy based retention is a huge advantage and frankly beats most script based solutions hands down. Flashback database is another feature entirely. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l