The default RMAN scripts created by the NB wizard work fine in most cases. They do not by default include the 'SEND' line unless you populate it in the wizard, and at that, I think it uses the wrong syntax. The SEND syntax does not seem to work properly with NBU. The PARMS attribute does work however, as in the following example. ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch00 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' parms 'env=(NB_ORA_POLICY=ORA_rsys10_arch_delete,NB_ORA_SERV=rsysnbu,NB_ORA_CLIENT=rsys10,NB_ORA_SCHED=Daily_Ora)'; This is not important or required if there is one database on the server. I have found that on Windows servers with 2+ databases to backup, the PARMS attribute is required, or the backups will fail. Oddly, this doesn't seem to be a problem on Solaris or Linux. Jared Byron Pearce <pearceb@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/10/2004 10:51 AM Please respond to oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: RMAN -Help Sanjay: If you're asking about the NB parameters, the ones that you will need to set are: * NB_ORA_POLICY * NB_ORA_SERV * NB_ORA_CLIENT * NB_ORA_SCHED Put a line similar to the following in your RMAN scripts after the ALLOCATE, but before the BACKUP commands: SEND 'NB_ORA_POLICY=prod-db,NB_ORA_SERV=nbusrv,NB_ORA_CLIENT=localhost,NB_ORA_SCHED=manual-full'; Obviously you will need to plug in the policy, NBU server, client, and schedule names for your environment. The Unix Admins should be able to provide you with that information. HTH