How about running an Rman backup to tape, Rman says it worked fine, and not attempting a restore. I've seen these fail because of MM problems. My running joke is that I can back anything up to tape via Rman. Proving I can restore it is what I really get paid for. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Syed Jaffar Hussain Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:23 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: What are the common mistakes DBA do retarding backup & Recovery? Hello List, I would like hear from you about the common mistakes by most of the DBAs do regarding the backup and recovery. I would think of the following: 1. Never testing their backups. 2. No good backup and recovery policies. 3. Afraid of using RMAN or Making benefits of RMAN I would really like to know if there are any other points than what I specified above. -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain Oracle ACE 8i,9i & 10g OCP DBA http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/oracle_ace/ace1.html#hussain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently."