There is a paper on appsdba.com that describes how to do this with 8.0 RMAN. Even though it's incredibly old, it still may be of some help. For what you want to do I don't think too much has changed all the way through 10g. http://www.appsdba.com/papers/restore.pdf At 04:11 AM 12/8/2004, Charlotte Hammond wrote: >This should be a simple RMAN task but I can't find the "recipe" to do it.... > >I want to restore my backup (assume backup to disk - no MML >considerations) to a new host. I know about the duplicate command but >this assumes that the original target is available. What if my original >server has died? (don't worry - only a test!) > >I'm sure this is a RTFM - but what FM to R? > >Thanks >- Charlotte > Andy Rivenes Email: arivenes@xxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l