Hi Joe, I say the logic is correct, with one possible caveat that you would not wan't to stay in this situation too long, if the controlfile record capacity has "wrapped"/overflowed over the one-week default for backup info, you will losing the oldest entries about backups. It depends of the "window" needed of recoverability. controfile_keep_record_time global init.ora setting. >Question: Does anyone see anything wrong with our logic in saying that >even if a restore using the new repository failed we could always use >the cf? Do people test their backups when all that changes is the >repository being used? We are not changing the version of oracle that is >being used to run the rman command so the cf repository isn't changing. >Basically we are only risking our redundancy. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l