This is Oracle 10.2.0.2 on HP-UX B.11.23. I have an rman backup which was done in "nocatalog mode" and am attempting to restore this database on another server. The backup was done three days ago. I put the control files, int.ora, and password files where the database expected them to be and used the following script to restore: #!/bin/ksh # export ORACLE_SID=peregrine rman target sys/password nocatalog <<EOF startup mount pfile='/opt/oracle/admin/dbname/pfile/initdbname.ora'; run{ allocate channel ch1 type disk; allocate channel ch2 type disk; allocate channel ch3 type disk; allocate channel ch4 type disk; allocate channel ch5 type disk; allocate channel ch6 type disk; restore database; } exit EOF The script runs without errors, but when I give the command: > recover database until cancel using backup controlfile; It asks me for an archive log which was created back in March when I first created the database. What is going on here? Thanks, Peter Schauss -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l