Hi Srinivas One more option to consider, Take this backup to a diffent system. Restore system,rbs and the tablespace that contains your table ( preferably all the files of this tablespace )..startup mount and drop all other datafiles using 'alter database datafile '....' offline drop'. bring up the database. export the table that you need.. i made lots of assumptions here .. ( you need relatively a small table to recover and the tablespace that contains this table is not the only tablespace in the db ) Cheers S venkatesh -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Srinivasa Medam Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:05 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Recover a table from cold backup-noarchivelog Hi, I have a database running in noarchivelog mode. Scenario: ------------ I have a test database running in noarchivelog mode. Database is 8i. Cold backup is performed weekly. It is a filecopy, NOT RMAN backup. Just all datafiles, control files, init files are copied to backup location. Users dropped a table and wanted it to be recovered as of the last cold backup. Can someone please help me with this process. thanks in advance. Srinivas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------