We converted the individual scripts to a central server. We run rman through sqlnet so you don't have to have have direct access. We do ssh in for a few command simply to accomdate the conversion of the orginal script. Check out how to use sqlnet with rman. Brian ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of A Joshi Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:59 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ** rman to disk on remote/another server Hi, I have a regular hot backup setup on a server to copy files (rcp) to another server. I can also use rsh. I am moving to rman and would like to copy the backup to the same remote server. This is 8.1.7.4 on sunos 5.8. I would be using basic rman like : allocate channel disk1 type disk format '/export/back/%d_backups/%U'. Is there a way to point disk to this remote file system and have rman use rcp/rsh for copy. Can someone help? One way would be to rfs mount a file system but that would be limiting and also affect the server if rfs mounted file system is not available. Thanks ________________________________ Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virusall/*http://communications.yah oo.com/features.php?page=221> helps detect nasty viruses!