All I want to do is restore the database and restart. I don't want to apply any logs at all. Even in noarchivelog I should be able to do this. Anyway, recover database; returns the following: 1: RMAN-03002 failure of recover command 2: ORA-00283 recovery session cancelled due to errors. 3: RMAN-11003 failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: alter database recover if needed start until cancel 4: ORA-00283 recovery session canceled due to errors. 5: ORA-16433 the database must be opened in r/w mode. Edward Long --- On Fri, 1/21/11, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Noarchivelog 11.2.0.1 Restart To: "Ed Long" <rdhm99a@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 3:36 PM How about 'RECOVER DATABASE' without any SCN and let Oracle decide? PITR and NOARCHIVELOG don't go together. can you show me the output of list backup of database? Alan.- On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Ed Long <rdhm99a@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks for the help. You are correct this is NOARCHIVELOG. My restore command is exactly the form you suggest. Essentially I am trying to do a database point in time recovery which appears to require a recover database of some sort after the restore. If I try to open the database after the restore without the recover I get RMAN-03002 failure of alter db command ORA-01147 System tablespace file 1 is offline ORA-01110 data file 1: C:\ORACLE11G\ORADATA\ORCL\SYSTEM01.DBF Edward Long --- On Fri, 1/21/11, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Noarchivelog 11.2.0.1 Restart To: rdhm99a@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 2:10 PM I'm assuming the DB is in noarchivelog mode, and that the LEVEL0 was taken with the DB in MOUNT mode. If that's the case, a simple restore, with no UNTIL clause should bring the data to the point of the backup. Why are you trying to specify the SCN? cheers Alan.- On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Ed Long <rdhm99a@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi everyone and happy Friday. I have a benchmark system that I can't get to restart and need your advice. Please understand that I've spent half a day on the RMAN user guide and reference without success. Here is the sequence that has worked up to now. 1: Create LEVEL 0 backup using RMAN. 2: Run Real Application Test test. 3: recycle system to mount mode. 3: Restore backup. 4: Recover to SCN. (No real logs to apply). 5: start open. None of the recover until options appear to work. I have an export of the application database so I can if necessary drop the database and start over again. However, I want to understand this recovery scenario so if it happens in the future on a system I don't have an export of I understand my options. All of my options end up with the system table space off line. I don't see a way to get it back online. RMAN 11003 appears to be the root of the problem although the version I'm seeing is garbled. Edward Long