If the dataguard instnace is physical the backups cab be offloaded to the physical with no change . It is will be cold backup or mount mode consistent backup Fuad On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:11 PM, "Gil Cota" <gil.cota@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, I’m running a 10.2.0.4 db, and i’m looking for some documentation regarding rman backup on a dataguard instead of the production db. Thanks and regards, Gil -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l