Hi I am having a bit of a mental block ! Primary is 10.2.0.3 on ASM and using OMF, i want to create a standby that does not use ASM and OMF, and i'm (trying to) use RMAN DUPLICATE When creating the standby, I dont think I can use DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT as in :- DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT = '+DATADG', '/u02' The result would be a filename being converted from something like +DATADG/datafile/system.259.639693489 to /u02/ora/datafile/system.259.639693489 When I really want the datafile to be something like /u02/oradata/stdby/system01.dbf' I could during the RMAN duplicate, use a run block to run SET NEWNAME, which would rename each of the datafiles to the format I want, but then, what would happen when a new file is added to the primary, how would that be propagated to the standby ? Is there a way around this, or do i have to go from OMF to OMF ? Cheers Neil _________________________________________________________________ It's simple! Sell your car for just $30 at CarPoint.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l