Hi All Lets assume that one of my datafile on the primary database has been corrupted in a datagaurd environment. Can i do these steps to recover the primary db. 1)On primary do RMAN>sql 'alter database datafile 5 offline' 2)on Standby do RMAN>copy datafile '/db/ARON/fs1/test_d01_0.dbf_copy' to '/db/tmp/test_d01_0.dbf_copy' 3)Copy the datafile in step 2 to primary server 4)On the primary catalog the copy RMAN>catalog datafilecopy '/db/ARON/fs1/test_d01_0.dbf_copy' 5)RMAN>switch datafile 5 to COPY 6)RMAN>recover datafile 5 ; 7)RMAN> sql 'alter database datafile 5 online'; will this work regards Hrishy __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l