Would you like to post your backup script here? On 1/16/06, Prabhu, K <prabhu_adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > All, > > We're testing User-Managed Backups of the Whole Database. Oracle recomends > to make backups of all datafiles as well as all control files but not > online > redo log files. > > During our testing we backed up all the datafiles and control files and > restored those files after couple of startup/shutdowns. While starting up > the database with backup files oracle signals error 'ora-00338'. > ORA-00338: log 1 of thread 1 is more recent than controlfile. > Even recover database doesn't help us. > > Is there anything we missed out or do we need to take online redologs as > well in our consistent whole backup ? > > Thanks > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Yao Yongping Learning Oracle, UNIX/Linux... Love Reading, Classical Music, Philosophy, Economics etc. Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/yaoyp/