Set these environment variables before starting rman session. NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII -- set your NLS_LANG value. NLS_DATE_FORMAT="YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS" Thanks, Srini Karla Sr. Database Administrator, Harcourt Assessments, Inc., San Antonio, TX 78259 210-339-5252 work 210-683-3936 cell --------------------------------------------------- Our Sharepoint: http://hassatappp022/sites/epa/ea/default.aspx --------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Prabhu, Krishnaswamy Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:32 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ORA-01861 on rman Hi List, We are getting the following error when we tried to do time based recovery. Can anyone help us to resolve the same. RMAN> run{ SET UNTIL TIME '2007-04-11:09:29:00'; restore database; recover database; } 2> 3> 4> 5> executing command: SET until clause RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of set command at 04/13/2007 07:10:52 ORA-01861: literal does not match format string Thanks Prabhu _________________________________________________________________ Free & easy posting . Yello Classifieds. http://www.yello.in/home.php?utm_source=hotmailtag&utm_medium=textlink&u tm_content=in&utm_campaign=april -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l