we are playing with Tivoli trying to recover a tablespace from a snapshot that was backedup earlier. because i am continually in learning mode, im trying to find a way to recover a particular tablespace, one i created for this experiment, back to the state at the time of the snapshot. im trying to find docs on how to recover the tablespace. does this become a point in time recovery, where the point in time is the snapshot? or is it an entire database recovery resetting the logs? Oracle 9iR2 on W2K AdvSvr -- Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l