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