Take a look at Metalink document ID 1075908.1 Just don't use the "FOR STANDBY" clause. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Leader ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john scott Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:42 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RMAN RESTORE TO A DIFFERENT SID I have an RMAN backup and need to restore it an existing database with a different name on another server. Can I restore this without using nid? Also the directory structure is different. If anyone has done this, can you please list briefly the steps to be taken? John