Our university is purchasing this product from IBM for backup of our SAN. The tech sales rep tells me it can also be used for Oracle online backups. Has anyone used this product? How can this utility prevent fractured blocks? Even if the disk were quiesced before the mirror was split, how does the FlashCopy utility know it didn't quiesce the disk halfway through an Oracle block update? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l