Howard,RMAN is infamous for giving completely misleading error like error writing to a datafile while the root cause was error reading from tape or something like that.
Check whether there were any other errors earlier during duplicate. Cheers, Alex On 21/03/2009, at 1:56 AM, Howard Latham wrote:
Redhat Linux 10gRan a duplicate database for standby - which took 8 hours - it failed claiming one of the files at the end my 300gdatabase needed recovery - Doh!Anyway ran the same script again. It said all files already restored and mounted the standby happily andstarted applying archived logs from the other box - funny eh? glad I didn't delete all the files and start again! So if at first you don't succeed try once more - made my Friday! -- Howard A. Latham