No. I did not lose anything yet. This was to plan for the future. I have backup scripts to hot backup the database to another server, since this server does not have a tape drive. Tivoli picks up these files after the hotbackup runs. It was working fine for the last several months. Last couple of weeks, just while copying one of the datafiles over it is timing out. This is the error I get: cp: /oracle/orabackup/lawprod/hot/lawindex.dbf: A remote host did not respond within the timeout period. This file is about 4G. I am on AIX 5.2 and Oracle 9.2.0.6. We also have 1GB ethernet. So, I don't know why this is happening. Thanks, Manjula --------------------------------------------- On 7/21/05, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can use command: > Recover database using backup controlfile until cancel ; > And then cancel recovery at some point in time before the crash. > > Did you loose all files after the crash ? > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l