Thanks Alan. You catalog the locations of the files in the controlfile after the controlfile is restored, In my case I am not able to restore my controlfile at all. I even created a directory /psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/f9upgrd/f9dmo/backup/dec02_2009 and copied the backup files there with same results. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > As usual, Oracle Docs is slow to non-responsive, but I believe the answer > to your problems is here: > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14194/rcmsynta011.htm#sthref230 > > hth > Alan.- > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [SNIP] >