Thank you for your followup , (in fact I was 100% sure that someone will ask for more details) As much as I remember it was something ugly like ORA-0600 signalled during the real restore phase, which did not happened during the restore validate. We were able to reproduce the same problem several times. Finally we took the previous backup Dragutin > I've already faced the situations when restore validate commands did not >> report any errors but >> the real restore command did. >> > > Details please. :) > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l