Can you give us the following? Output of Report backup summary Have you tried doing a crosscheck backup? May need to allocate 2 channels for maintenance. Allocate channel for maintenance device type sbt; Allocate channel for maintenance device type disk; Then give us report backup summary again. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Jeffery Thomas <jeffthomas24@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:43:09 To: ORACLE-L<Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RMAN restore database preview vs actual restore I'm testing a D/R situation, specifically a Netbackup redirected client restore, source being a 10.2.0.4 RAC two-node instance; restoring to a single-instance. After restoring the spfile, restarting the instance, restoring the control file, and startup mount; I issue a "restore database preview" to validate that I have all backupsets necessary to perform an incomplete recovery. RMAN correctly lists all backupsets for the last complete backup, 580 through 584. However, when I attempt to actually perform the recovery, RMAN starts at backupset 574, which is no longer available. So my general question would be, why would there be a discrepancy? 580-584 is the last complete backup and is available, why would RMAN try and go to an earlier backup, contrary to the results of the preview? Thanks, Jeff -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l