Brandon - Pretty much yes to all your questions: we've got No.Restrictions defined on the master server. I used bplist to validate access to the list of backups for the source client, and also to determine the latest autobackup from which I pulled the spfile and control file. I'm pretty sure I did a crosscheck but I'll go back and test. Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Allen, Brandon<Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since you're doing a redirected restore, I'd guess that for some reason > Oracle isn't really able to access the backups. Did you complete the steps > required in Netbackup to enable redirected restores (aka alternate > node/host/client restores)? Can you see the backups from the command line > with bplist/bpclimagelist? If you run a crosscheck on them, do they still > show as available? > > > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or > attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not > consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions > and other information in this message that do not relate to the official > business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by > it. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l