" >It works. I came up with a couple tricks for this. One was to automatically generate >the register statements and execute them on the standby once the >rebuild completes. ... " Just a little suggestion on this one. Another possibility is to execute rman command catalog start with '/your_directory' noprompt (and perhaps schedule this within a job) on the standby side. This is simplier, you don't need to worry about sequence numbers and generate a lot of statements HTH Dragutin