Just a question : Do you have two seperate mirrors of the database volume and are splitting one mirror but actually attempting a recovery on another mirror ? Hemant At 11:09 PM Monday, Rich Holland wrote: >I=92m trying to use a hot backup to make a copy of our production 817_32 = >database >using a 3rd disk mirror split operation. Here are the steps I=92m = >taking: > > > SQL> connect / as sysdba > SQL> alter database recover automatic using backup controlfile until = >cancel; > SQL> alter database recover cancel; > >At this point, I get an error like this: > ORA-01547: warning: RECOVER succeeded but OPEN RESETLOGS would get = >error > below > ORA-01194: file 83 needs more recovery to be consistent > ORA-01110: data file 83: '/oracle/PRD/data44/tsdata.data1' > >In the alert log I see errors like this: > WARNING! Recovering data file 386 from a fuzzy file. If not the = >current file > it might be an online backup taken without entering the begin backup = >command. Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l