Sorry, for some reason I was thinking sqlplus when the command was asmcmd. You can't copy an asm file and give it the name for a file number/incarnation. You have to do something like cp +DATA/orcl/datafile/users.123.45567788887 +FRA/orcl/datafilecopy May be similar for the alias commands but I haven't tested or used it before. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l