Hi, in-line On Apr 6, 2005 5:38 PM, Tricia McKellar <tricia_mckellar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > ... > but rman seems to get stuck on the backup pieces. The backup files do > exist. I've been rman'ing to disk only (not tape). I've tried copying > the backup pieces to the dup host, but it still gets stuck. Ideas? ... In case I missed the obvious, are you running catalog or nocatalog? You said disk, so I'd guess no catalog. If nocatalog you may want to dump control file to trace (see asktom for simple instructions) and look at /all/ the file names, or first look in the various v$ views. You might find what is wrong. HTH. Regards, Mike Thomas Raleigh, NC :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l