Replying to myself, sorry, it's late on a Friday J Quick metalink search shows that after creating the standby control file, you've got to switch a few logs or you'll get the error. Strange correlation if you ask me. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Newman, Christopher Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:07 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 10.2.0.4 solaris 10 rman duplicate help Greetings, Trying to duplicate a database using rman, never had an issue before, but having problems now. I've created the standby controlfile on the primary via alter database create standby controlfile as '/u02/backup/$SOURCE_SID/stndby_$ORACLE_SID.ctl'; and scp'd that over to the standby, as well as a fresh full RMAN backup taken prior to the controlfile creation. I've set my default RMAN settings on the standby to match the primary, ie 'CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/u02/backup/%d/%U_%I';', but I'm getting the following when trying to run my rman script: RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 07/24/2009 19:01:12 RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore RMAN-06024: no backup or copy of the control file found to restore My connect string is: rman target sys/pass@PRIMARY AUXILIARY / Rman script: run { allocate auxiliary channel C1 device type disk; ... allocate auxiliary channel C15 device type disk; duplicate target database for standby DORECOVER NOFILENAMECHECK; } I'm sure it's something trivial... I just did this exact procedure on a different box and it worked fine, what am I missing? Chris Newman Database Specialist AITS, University of Illinois 217-333-5429