Just a tip in case you're not already familiar with this - if you try restoring from autobackup w/o specifying the backup piece, it can take a long time for rman to search backwards through the catalog from 255 to 0 looking for the latest autobackup sequence on each day. The workaround is to set the maxseq parameter, like this (as documented in Metalink 393947.1): restore spfile from autobackup maxseq=02; Regards, Brandon -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev Btw, were you able to restore controlfile knowing just DBID and no names for the autobackup piece(s)? 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