I have an rman script which have been using on 8.1.7.4 for several years, but when I run it on 10.2.0.2.0 I get the following error message for each channel: RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ch1 channel at 05/08/2007 09:32:03 ORA-19504: failed to create file "/ora10/oradata/orabkup/peregrine/hot_copies/peregrine_070508093147_1.rb k" ORA-27038: created file already exists My script is shown below. I have played around with the format such as adding a %p after the channel number in the file name, but I still get the same error. Any suggestions? Thanks, Peter Schauss ======================================================================== ====== #!/bin/ksh # # rman_bkup.ksh # # Backup a database using rman # echo " " echo " * set Oracle environment variables " export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 export BACKUP_DIR=/ora10/oradata/orabkup/$1/hot_copies export BACKUP_DIR2=/ora10/oradata/orabkup/$1/hot_copies export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin export ORACLE_SID=$1 echo " " signon=`cat $ORACLE_BASE/maint/dba.ctl/dba.$1` # BASE_NAME=`date +$1_%y%m%d%H%M%S` # rman target $signon nocatalog <<EOF run { allocate channel ch1 type disk format '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_1.rbk'; allocate channel ch2 type disk format '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_2.rbk'; allocate channel ch3 type disk format '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_3.rbk'; allocate channel ch4 type disk format '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_4.rbk'; allocate channel ch5 type disk format '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_5.rbk'; allocate channel ch6 type disk format '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_6.rbk'; backup database; sql 'ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT'; } exit EOF # # Backup the control file which now contains a record # of this backup. # sqlplus $signon <<EOF alter database backup controlfile to '$BACKUP_DIR/${BASE_NAME}_control.bak'; exit EOF # -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l