I also meant to include The rman command restore database validate -----Original Message----- From: Michael McMullen [mailto:ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:35 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: testing recovery You don't need DR scenarios to test backups. Rman validate backupset could satisfy some requirements. I also have a dummy tablespace that I drop and restore to test backups. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l