Originally posted by slimdave
The recommendation is to take an incremental or full backup after nologging operations. I have a feeling that RMAN is preferred for this because it can backup just the affected blocks . . .
In fact this is the only reference to NOLOGGING I found in the 8i RMAN manual - which left me stuggling to see the big picture.

Slim, Tamal, thanks v.much for your help.