I'm just curious exactly what you mean by: ".whereas Cloning can not be done to restore upto the latest Sequence number." _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anurag Verma Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:15 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RMAN Duplicate Vs. Cloning Hello friends, I have used RMAN DUPLICATE command to restore a single instance database to RAC instance database or Single instance database in another server. Is there any disadvantage of RMAN Duplicate as compared to Database CLONING ???? I found RMAN Duplicate very easy and can restore upto the latest Sequence number/SCN as of the Source database, whereas Cloning can not be done to restore upto the latest Sequence number. Looking forward to your comments, Thanks, Anurag