Hi Peter, could you try to rename the restored datafiles in the controlfile to their new locations before issuing the restore command: run{ set until time "to_date('201302011500', 'yyyymmddhh24mi')"; restore database; switch datafile all; recover database noredo; alter database open resetlogs; } Regards Dimitre On 01/02/2013 19:28, Peter van Rijn wrote: > Than my frustration started. After I while I saw that RMAN, when > restoring the datafiles, invented new names for them. [...] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l