Oracle OnDemand, which hosts more than 1000 databases on netapp filers, uses this snapshot functionality for backup. you are not alone :) vasu _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vladimir Barac Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:37 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: NetApp flier - based snapshots and db backups Hello to everyone We are planning to implement backups of our databases by utilizing snapshots feature of NetaApp filers. Are there some bad experiences with this NetApp's feature? Any hints, advices, best practices... are welcomed. Thank you in advance