Hey, that's the right approach. If you don't trust your backup for a test-recovery, performed on the live system, why do you trust it at all? On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:11, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: > Dennis, > > But I would only consider a recovery successful if you performed a full > recovery of your production database. Otherwise, you are just whistling in > the dark - you never really know if it's going to work until it *has* to. Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l