Key words... Does not get backed up... Do the cloning procedure from production database. http://www.samoratech.com/TopicOfInterest/swCloneDB.htm Brian -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Wells Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:40 AM To: Oracle-L Subject: doh! stupid datafiles Running 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. Yesterday I deleted 2 datafiles, luckily in a non-production environment. However, this system does not get backed up. Im thinking I am most likely stuck recreating this database from the production instance. is this my only option, and what is the doc id in metalink that can walk me through this. -- Bryan S Wells bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l