Jeremiah, Yep.. I had DULled an ASM instance long back. It works, Basically you need to provide the disk names in the controlfile and then DUL will be able to read and understand. Have a nice day !!------------------------------------------------------------ Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan, Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface: Oracle Press 2004. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ Coming soon... Oracle RAC Handbook...Oracle Press 2006 ----- Original Message ---- From: Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: Oracle Discussion List <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 1:09:12 PM Subject: DUL on ASM? Has anyone successfully gotten DUL to work on ASM? It seems to know about it, but can't find the disk groups. Thanks to anyone who can help. -- Jeremiah Wilton ORA-600 Consulting $ ./dul Data UnLoader 10.2.0.18 - Oracle Internal Only - on Wed Aug 9 13:04:57 2006 with 64-bit io functions Copyright (c) 1994 2006 Bernard van Duijnen All rights reserved. Strictly Oracle Internal use Only DUL: Warning: Compatible is set to 10Values can be 6|7|8|9|10 DUL: Warning: Recreating file "dul.log" DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/data_dw.325.589887387', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/data_operations.292.572205561', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/data_parking.298.591368501', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/data_warehouse.287.583929341', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/data_warehouse.293.572205615', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/indx_dw.323.589888341', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/indx_operations.294.572205857', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/indx_parking.282.591368557', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/indx_warehouse.295.572205909', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/indx_warehouse.333.583929163', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/sysaux.261.571929203', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/system.259.571929189', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/tools.320.572255917', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/undotbs1.260.571929197', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory DUL: Error: Dictionary cache (null) is empty DUL: Error: Asm Disk Group GROUP1 not found DUL: Error: open( '+GROUP1/ORCL/datafile/undotbs2.263.571929207', Read Only) OS error 2: No such file or directory Dul: parse error: Expecting file property or newline or end of file, when parsing <+> File "control.dul" line number 16 column 11 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l