There was a case study in the classic 'Oracle 7 Backup & Recovery Handbook' , Recovering from crashed hotbackup. Basically you will be manually marking the files out of backup mode (alter database end backup , ok,, those days alter tablespace/datafile end backup) and open the database. Good luck!... -Gopal On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a situation: > 1) In March, someone issued "alter database begin backup". > 2) Last Sunday the server was rebooted. > 3) The database did not come up because he needs recovery. > 4) When we try to recover, oracle wants archive logs from March, and they > are not available. > 5) RMAN restore and recover also wants old logs. > > Any suggestions? > > -- > Adar Yechiel > Rechovot, Israel > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l