It seems to me that they are equivalent. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of hrishy Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:19 PM To: WilliamBlanchard; joan.hsieh@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle_l Subject: Re: rman duplicate set until time Hi Just a wild thought shouldnt this script be something like run { allocate auxiliary channel aux1 type disk; allocate auxiliary channel aux2 type disk; allocate auxiliary channel aux3 type disk; duplicate target database to $A_ORACLE_SID until time 'sysdate-1'; release channel aux1; release channel aux2; release channel aux3; } instead of run { allocate auxiliary channel aux1 type disk; allocate auxiliary channel aux2 type disk; allocate auxiliary channel aux3 type disk; set until time 'SYSDATE -1'; duplicate target database to $A_ORACLE_SID; release channel aux1; release channel aux2; release channel aux3; } -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l