Hi all: Here is my situation. I have a 10.2.0.1 database (DB01) where compatible parameter is set to 10.2.0. I have a cold backup created last night and I would like to restore it on another server where I have 10.2.0.1 database (DB02) , but with the compatible parameter set to 10.0.0. I am getting the error: ORA-01130: database file version 10.2.0.0.0 incompatible with ORACLE version 10.0.0.0.0 ORA-01110: data file 1: '/opt/oracle/data/pcfr01/data10/cfr_system01.dbf' Does that mean that I have to change the compatible parameter on my DB02 database to match the one on DB01 (e.g - 10.2.0) in order to do the restore or is there a way to accomplish the restore the way I want? thank you Gene Gurevich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l