Guys, Trying to restore and recover and when I get to a specific archive file the database produces ora-600 errors and the database crashes. When I go to an earlier archive then I get ora-01547, ora-01245. I am copying backup files and starting again. I am wondering if I go back even farther if it will work but then I will have lost a few hours on the database. Would going to the point where I get the ora-01547, ora-1245 and then doing a offline drop on those datafiles work? Then I could recreate those datafiles, tablespaces and import those users/schemas. How do I know for sure how far I can go with the archives and get my database back up and running?? It looks like files where corrupted or overwritten with a previous file. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com