>If you are using 11g ASM - cp command in asmcmd is your friend I knew it! SQL and rman alone is not enough to replace file system commands. Even if it is a close call... But when dealing with restore and recovery (which includes a data guard too) cp is something you need. Thank you, Laimis N., --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx> To: Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 2011.08.30 11:21 Subject: Re: standby reinstate failed: other options On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:11 AM, <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx> wrote: >>Now if you did a "failover" and not a switchover, sometimes a reinstate > Actually, it worked the fifth time too after I quickly re-learned the old > good habbit to copy redo logs aside before messing with db. > btw, how is that accomplishable in ASM? Hi If you are using 11g ASM - cp command in asmcmd is your friend regards, -- Marcin Przepiorowski http://oracleprof.blogspot.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l