Hello I have a question about RMAN and recovery. In my product database I have two files with the same name but other localizations. I use duplication to prepare development environment on other server. Recently after duplicating a big database (with the same name of files) error occurred. RMAN-06136: ORACLE error from auxiliary database: ORA-19563: header validation failed for file. Now I know that problem concern double-name files. RMAN recovered two files with the same name to the one catalog (Unix). I tried to move one file to other location and create new controlfiles with correct path but I got an error: ORA-01110: data file 120: '/u01/oracle/oradata/DENT/OREM_IDX_41.dbf' ORA-01110: data file 120: '/x09/oracle/oradata/DENT/ OREM_IDX_41.dbf'' My question - is it possible to recover only one datafile using RMAN to the new location? Very important is that file must be from the same time as my script to duplicate. run { set until time "2006-11-03 15:00:00"; allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms'ENV=(NB_ORA_CLIENT=xxx.domain.com)'; allocate auxiliary channel ch2 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms'ENV=(NB_ORA_CLIENT=xxx.doamin.com)'; . set newname for datafile 120 to ''/u01/oracle/oradata/DENT/OREM_IDX_41.dbf'; . set newname for datafile 129 to ''/u01/oracle/oradata/DENT/OREM_IDX_41.dbf''; DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE TO.... ..} Recover one file takes me 10-20 minutes, while database restore takes around 6 hours Thanks for help -- Wojciech Skrzynecki Database Administrator -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l