Checksum_Verification Nochecksum_Verification Requests that the page checksum be verified for each page copied. The default is to perform this verification. The Checksum_Verification qualifier uses significant CPU resources but can provide an extra measure of confidence in the quality of the data being copied. For offline copy operations, the additional CPU cost of using the Checksum_Verification qualifier might not be justified unless you are experiencing or have experienced disk, HSC, or CI port hardware problems. One symptom of these problems is pages being logged to the corrupt page table (CPT). For online copy operations, use of the Checksum_Verification qualifier offers an additional level of data security when the database employs disk striping or RAID (redundant arrays of inexpensive disks) technology. These technologies fragment data over several disk drives, and use of the Checksum_Verification qualifier permits Oracle RMU to detect the possibility that the data it is reading from these disks has been only partially updated. If you use either of these technologies, you should use the Checksum_Verification qualifier. Note, however, that if you specify the Nochecksum qualifier, and undetected corruptions exist in your database, the corruptions are included in the copied file. Such a corruption might be difficult to recover from, especially if it is not detected until weeks or months after the copy operation is performed. Overall, Oracle Corporation recommends that you use the Checksum_ Verification qualifier with all copy operations where integrity of the data is essential.