Originally posted by SANJAY_G
Originally posted by stecal:
Do you mean copy the redo log files as in a cold backup? Why copy those files? I think every book (well, quite a few of the more authoratative ones anyway) explicity tell you NOT to copy the redo log files in a cold backup. That should save you some space.
In fact, you should copy online redo logs files with cold backup.

Sanjay
Sanjay I guess you have not used RMAN for cold backups. RMAN does not backup online redo logs whatsoever, not in cold backups or hot backups.