Interesting. I was searching for sbtpcstart in Metalink and found that you had solved it by mentioning nofilenamecheck. Govindan On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:27:45 -0500, "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: Hi, I'm running 9.2.0.6 on Sparc Solaris 9, and I'm trying to duplicate a database via RMAN. Here's what I'm doing. First, to connect, I do: rman target / catalog rman/rman@rmancat auxiliary "sys/******@pep1" Then I run: run { allocate auxiliary channel t1 type sbt_tape; set until time "to_date('Feb 02 2007 08:00:00','Mon DD YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"; DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE to pep1 nofilenamecheck LOGFILE GROUP 1 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo01a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo01b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 2 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo02a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo02b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 3 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo03a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo03b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 4 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo04a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo04b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 5 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo05a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo05b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 6 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo06a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo06b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 7 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo07a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo07b') size 199M reuse, GROUP 8 ('/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo08a','/dev/vx/rdsk/redodg/pep1-redo08b') size 199M reuse; } In terms of output, I get: allocated channel: t1 channel t1: sid=20 devtype=SBT_TAPE channel t1: VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle - Release 5.1 (2006040521) executing command: SET NEWNAME Starting Duplicate Db at 06-FEB-07 Then I get all the auto-generated NEWNAME commands from specifying nofilename. Finally, I get: Starting restore at 06-FEB-07 channel t1: starting proxy datafile restore channel t1: specifying datafile(s) for proxy restore restoring datafile 00001 to /oracle/tmpdata/system_test proxy file handle=bk_5945_41_613681223_ppi98227_41_1 restoring datafile 00002 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vtools01 proxy file handle=bk_5945_30_613681223_ppi98227_30_1 restoring datafile 00003 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vtools02 proxy file handle=bk_5945_42_613681223_ppi98227_42_1 restoring datafile 00004 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vpqdsidx01 proxy file handle=bk_5945_43_613681223_ppi98227_43_1 restoring datafile 00005 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vpqdsidx02 proxy file handle=bk_5945_44_613681223_ppi98227_44_1 restoring datafile 00006 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vpqdmidx01 proxy file handle=bk_5945_3_613681223_ppi98227_3_1 restoring datafile 00007 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vpqdmidx02 proxy file handle=bk_5945_45_613681223_ppi98227_45_1 restoring datafile 00008 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vpqdmidx03 proxy file handle=bk_5945_46_613681223_ppi98227_46_1 restoring datafile 00009 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vpqdmidx04 proxy file handle=bk_5945_47_613681223_ppi98227_47_1 restoring datafile 00010 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vascxlidx41 proxy file handle=bk_5945_31_613681223_ppi98227_31_1 restoring datafile 00011 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vascxlidx42 proxy file handle=bk_5945_32_613681223_ppi98227_32_1 restoring datafile 00012 to /dev/vx/rdsk/prd1dg/vdocxlidx41 proxy file handle=bk_5945_335_613681223_ppi98227_335_1 ? And that continues for all the datafiles, and then it hangs?? If I look at V$SESSION_WAIT on the auxiliary server, I see it's waiting on sbtpcstart wait event. I left it running over night. It waited on that event for over 20 hours. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?? Thanks! -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which shouldn?t be done at all. ?Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005