I have been given the task of setting up rman to run from Grid Control. I have no training in rman so I'm winging it. The first question is whether or not I should use FRA. I'm assuming yes; my boss wants me to justify why. Denise Gwinn DBA WVNET ps My background is on VMS. Grid Control and the database I'm testing are on Linux boxes. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l