Hi everybody, I wrote an SQL script to perform hot backup of db on a VMS platform. This is a well-known technique, but on system there isn't space available neither expandable for backup on disk before putting it on tape, so I thought to backup each datafile directly to tape; is this correct or my backup sets will be unusable? Apart from Legato, I've no previous practice of db backup directly to tape, particularly on VMS; I believe that this platform is not much different from Unix for this specific topic, but I could be wrong. Has anybody some suggestion and/or experience to tell about? Thanks for you help, Alessandro ------------------------------------------------------ Scopri MOTOROLA K1, la nuova icona di design Motorola.Clicca e vinci ! http://click.libero.it/motorola16nov -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l