Hi All, I am trying to simulate this . Restore and Recovery of the Database on a New Host however after I did this set DBID 3782488593 on db1 on hostb when I try to do this rman target / nocatalog Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Sep 12 14:02:06 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed RMAN-06003: ORACLE error from target database: ORA-00210: cannot open the specified control file ORA-00202: control file: '/devel/dev02/dev10g/standbyctl.ctl' ORA-27041: unable to open file Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 oracle@asb-dev-dgs-002:dev10g:/devel/app/oracle/product/10.2/dbs> ls -ltr /devel/dev02/dev10g/standbyctl.ctl ls: /devel/dev02/dev10g/standbyctl.ctl: No such file or directory I am getting the above error . i am not able to determine where does the rman pick up the '/devel/dev02/dev10g/standbyctl.ctl' apprciate any suggestions. TIA -Prasad