Hello, We're moving our database server platform from Solaris to AIX. I'm configuring RMAN to duplicate a 9.2.0.6 database from a production server to a remote development server (both servers on AIX 5L v5.3 64bit AIX, 64bit Oracle). The RMAN duplicate command is failing on error ORA-27039 (create file failed, file size limit reached). I had this same RMAN script running in cron on Solaris for the past year, so I know the RMAN syntax is correct. I'm using TDP for Oracle to interface RMAN to Tivoli backup system for backups/restores. The ORA-27039 error appears to indicate insufficient AIX privileges in /etc/security/limits for the AIX user to create a file, but file size is set to unlimited (-1) for AIX user running the script. To test this is not a problem with AIX user file size limitation, I ran create database using 5GB system tablespace without error, then backed up and restored (same server) with RMAN. For some reason, I can't restore from production server to remote test server using RMAN duplicate without hitting this error. I also tried setting max piece size to 1GB when creating backup on the production server, but same error. Does anyone have any idea why I can't get this to work in AIX? Thanks! Here is the error message received when the RMAN "duplicate database" command fails: RMAN-00571: ============================================= RMAN-00569: = ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: ============================================= RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 10/06/2005 16:30:46 RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script ORA-19504: failed to create file "/u01/oradata/BRY/devl_PROD_01.dbf" ORA-27039: create file failed, file size limit reached __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l