Paula, I do this in my shell script *every* time and AT THE END OF EACH BACKUP I run...FULL, ARCH ONLY, etc. Even if I have a local Recovery Catalog. Effectively I now have a current controlfile (Recovery Catalog so to speak) on my remote server or at least a copy on the local server. A current controlfile *COPY* is better (to me) than any Recovery Catalog. NOTE: This is NOT an RMAN *backup* of my controlfile (totally useless), but rather a *COPY* of my controlfile. Meaning it can be used without RMAN; I cna $>cp controlfile.bkp controlfile01.ctl with this COPY. A current (after backup taken) controlfile *is* a catalog...I now have a "catalog" backup with the same information that is in the Recovery Catalog. :o) Even when I have a full blown Recovery Catalog I have never (had to) use it or restore it to another server...this controlfile COPY is always my first and faster option to get my DB up on a remote server in a disaster. Try it...mount this controlfile (with another instance) and do RMAN list backup without connection to the real Recovery Catalog. hth Chris Marquez Oracle DBA #!/bin/sh # ... # - Backup controlfile and spfile. # - Even though you have one in the back it IS BETTER to have one all by itself. # - THE ONE WITH THE BACKUP DOES *NOT* HAVE CURRENT BACKUP INFO!!!!! run {allocate channel c4 type disk; copy current controlfile to '${bkp_dir}/${date_time}_${DATABASE_NAME}_controlfile.ctl.bkp'; # - 8i # sql "alter database backup controlfile to trace"; # - 9i sql "alter database backup controlfile to trace as ''${bkp_dir}/${date_time}_${ORACLE_SID}_trace.ctl.bkp''reuse"; release channel c4; } ... scp ${bkp_dir}/${date_time}_${DATABASE_NAME}_controlfile.ctl.bkp oracle@${Node3}:${bkp_dir_Node3}/ >> $log_file 2>&1 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed 5/25/2005 4:48 AM To: Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; all_about_oracle@xxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: backing up rman catalog for disaster recovery I am setting up a disaster recovery site and I was thinking about the best way to do this. My theory is that I would like to not just use another recovery catalog on the DR site to backup my primary catalog but to somehow keep these catalogs constantly in-synch so when I do need to do complete recovery and only have the secondary rman catalog available - I wouldn't have to recover the catalog as all of the previous backups would be found there. So....should I do this using Oracle Data Guard on my disaster recovery site catalog or backup rman then restore as my first procedure? Any advice? =20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l