Hamid If you are thinking that incremental export would just export the new rows in a table. It doesn't. It just detects tables that have changed since the last export and exports those tables. As Joe points out, RMAN can do incremental backups, but you must have Enterprise Edition and run in archivelogmode. If you want just part of a table, you could do something better on your own. Since 8i export has a parameter QUERY. If you have a timestamp column for when a table is inserted or updated, then you could do a partial export of the table for just the new or changed rows. Again, I have done exports with the QUERY parameter, but haven't designed an incremental backup system based on that. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hamid Alavi Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:19 AM To: 'Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: Incremental Export in Oracle 9i List, Yesterday somebody from list told me that we don't have Incremental Export any more in Oracle 9i, any idea what's the option we could use instead of this? Any better feature? Hamid Alavi Office : 818-737-0526 Cell phone : 818-416-5095 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------