As OWS, said, the recovery catalog is going to become obsolete. The caveat is that it is not yet. I found that it is still much better to use a catalog rather than depend on the controlfiles. The bleeding edge is not always comfortable. There are some things that become nearly impossible to do with out a catalog. One thing is that the controlfile doesnt' do an auto controlfile backup of the controlfile at the end of a backup, therefore it only knows about the backupsets from previous backups. I don't know if this speaks to your questions, but I know that after having to manually and painfully recover a couple of times I switched back to using a recovery catalog. Then you can duplicated a database to another server with ease. Regards, Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:56 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RMAN Recovery without Catalog I was a bit confused.. whether it stores all the information in control file for 8i databases also or has started doing it from 9i. ---- RMAN stores recovery info in the control file in 8i. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------