Hi, Do you want to duplicate the database or restore/recover? The duplicate should look like this: connect catalog **** connect target **** connect auxiliary / run { allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk; set until time "to_date('OCT 17 2008 16:00:00','Mon DD YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"; duplicate target database to <TEST_DB_NAME>; } regards ________________________________ Von: Shastry(DBA) [mailto:shastry17@xxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Montag, 27. Oktober 2008 14:36 An: Bort, Guillermo Cc: Boll, Jan-Hendrik; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: How to restore only archives from RMAN catalog Thank you soo much Guillermo !! Let me try and revert back in few mins. On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Bort, Guillermo <guillermo.bort@xxxxxxx> wrote: run { allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk; set until time "to_date('Oct 12 2008 09:00:00','Mon DD YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"; *RESTORE DATABASE* recover clone database *until time here is not needed as you used set until time before* duplicate target database to <TEST_DB_NAME>; } hth Guillermo Alan Bort DBA / DBA Main Team EDS, an HP company From: Shastry(DBA) [mailto:shastry17@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 11:30 AM To: Bort, Guillermo Cc: Jan-Hendrik.Boll@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to restore only archives from RMAN catalog Hi all, Thanks in first for your valuable responses. When I try to run the below script, I am getting the following error, connect catalog **** connect target **** connect auxiliary / run { allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk; set until time "to_date('Oct 12 2008 09:00:00','Mon DD YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"; recover clone database until time "to_date('OCT 17 2008 16:00:00','Mon DD YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"; duplicate target database to <TEST_DB_NAME>; } allocated channel: ch1 channel ch1: sid=500 devtype=DISK Starting recover at 27-10-2008 06:09:15 released channel: ch1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 10/27/2008 06:09:16 RMAN-06555: datafile 1 must be restored from backup created before 17-10-2008 16:00:00 Recovery Manager complete. Please correct if I am wrong, I am new to RMAN and needs your input if anything is wrong. For your information, i could restore and recover the database only for 12th as I have LEVEL 0 12th backup directory. Is it correct that unless we have incremental LEVEL 1 backup associated to 12 Level 0 backup, the above command wont work? Thanks, Ann