firstly,whats an open backup? secondly what error messages do you get On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:20:13 +0400, Viswa Sultan <ssyed@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys > I have OPEN backup of my test db till last week > But I lost all archive logs and control file. > I created controlfile script and run and > tried several options but db not opened. > Now I want to open test db, > What is the way to open db,please? > I am not using RMAN. > Thanks > Syed > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l