Yury Velikanov wrote: >Amihay, > >It is easy if you need to copy whole database. > > > Yup. Something like this will do it: run { set until scn= 4706686; duplicate target database for standby dorecover; } Just figure out the appropriate SCN by using "list backup of database;" which will show the appropriate checkpoint SCN and run this little script from the appropriate interpretter, with appropriate arguments and it's done. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l