Hi, The answer is to connect to the rman catalog and enter the "reset database" command. This updates the catalog for the new incarnation of the database. Regards Pete [END] -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hitchman, Peter Sent: 20 November 2004 18:02 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Help needed with rman backup of activated standby Hi, My rman resource is on holiday.... I have activated a standby database, which now takes over from the original. I want to back it up in rman, but when I try I get:- "RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: RMAN-20003: target data base incarnation not found in recovery catalog" So I need to register the activated standby database. Do I need to unregister the old one first? What steps should I take? Yours in ignorance. Pete [END] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l