This is weird we cannot backup rman files from disk as some seem to appear endless both to linux (files were produced on NT) AND to arcserv both on Linux and on NT. CP pulling from linux just hangs until the disk is full and arcserv jobs show a negative filesize in the job monitor and keep calling from new tapes - we have tried 3 660 gig tapes so far! file sizes are 2.5 gig and 218gig ! Anyone got any ideas? Howard A. Latham SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR RSMB Television Research Ltd, The Communications Building, 48 Leicester Square, London. WC2H 7LT Tel: +44 (0)20 7808 3619 SW: +44 (0)20 7808 3600 Fax: +44 (0)20 7839 7446 mailto:Howard.latham@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.rsmb.co.uk Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from RSMB TV Research , a UK limited liability company. The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l