I (personally) take exports of my recovery catalog database after all = backups are complete and include them in my Unix File System Backups. I = also compress the export dumps and copy them to servers across town for = DR purposes. -----Original Message----- From: Carmen Rusu [mailto:carmen.rusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:53 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: rman: how do you backup the recovery catalog database? Which is a better method to backup the recovery catalog?=20 By logical or physical backup? Horror stories? Good ones? rcat db 10.2.0.3 os Linux SUSE 8 target dbs 9.2.0.4 and 8.1.7.4 os: SunOS 2.8 Thanks, Carmen Rusu DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l