Intersting, i did not know this, thanks ! ________________________________ From: Finn Jorgensen [mailto:finn.oracledba@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Mon 12/10/2007 8:22 PM To: Crisler, Jon Cc: jheinrichdba@xxxxxxxxx; richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle 10g RAC on AIX 5.3 I just wanted to point out that datapump is fully capable of writing to an ASM disk group. When you create your directory object you point it to +DISKGROUP... and voila, your file is in ASM. How to back it up from there should you so desire is another matter... This is something I've been arguing with Oracle support. > Both Exports and Datapump can be used but you need to write to a filesystem. Finn