Do you really mean different hardware as in DIFFERENT or same or similar hardware? Howard A. Latham Tech Services Director UK Oracle User Group. SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR RSMB Television Research Ltd, The Communications Building, 48 Leicester Square, London. WC2H 7LT Tel: +44 (0)20 7808 3619 SW: +44 (0)20 7808 3600 Fax: +44 (0)20 7839 7446 mailto:Howard.latham@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.rsmb.co.uk <http://www.rsmb.co.uk/> Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from RSMB TV Research , a UK limited liability company. The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ruth Gramolini Sent: 22 September 2005 13:18 To: oraclemails@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Restoration of Backups from Prodction Server You could just DUPLICATE the database in the new location and apply the archivelogs as they are requested duriing recovery. Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Navneet Gupta Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:15 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Restoration of Backups from Prodction Server Hi, We are migrating our database on different hardware/location. We will get RMAN backup of the database. And we will have access to archive logs generated during shipping/restoration(It would be some seven days archive logs). What are the options we have got to restore the databases and bring it uptodate by applying archives. Dataguard is a solution here? It's 9i on Solaris 9. Thanks in Advance, Navneet