how many databases are their..do the archives belong to the same database..did you specified the correct dbid while restoring the backup piece and archives..does thoese archvies were shown in list <backup piece > thanks..subodh On 20 May 2010 15:11, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 10g On Redhat. > > > I expect its obvious but Why cant I restore some archivelogs that are in my > db catalog and the backup pieces are present on disk. > No error messages plus no mention of the one I want when I do a restore > archivelog from sequence 4842 > Any Ideas folks? > > -- > Howard A. Latham > > > -- ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ==============================