Ruth, In 9i, these environmental variables are not required. You can do the same thing with an Rman command in the recovery script: set until time "to_date('2001-06-22:13:25:00','yyyy-mm-dd:hh24:mi:ss')"; Tom -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ruth Gramolini Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:50 PM To: mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: RMAN incomplete recovery environment setup? I will make an attempt to give some answers to your questions. See them inline. HTH, Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of dba1 mcc Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:24 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RMAN incomplete recovery environment setup? I am study on ORACLE 9i RMAN "incomplete recovery" document and it mention: Insure that NLS_LANG and NLS_DATE_FORMAT environment variables are set appropriately: $NLS_LANG=3DAMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252 $NLS_DATE_FORMAT=3D'YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS' My question are: 1. is it required? If you are going to do a point in time recovery you need to set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT. If you are going to do a complete recovery it is not necessary but can't hurt. Here is what the case4.rcv demo script says: Make sure to set your NLS_LANG and NLS_DATE_FORMAT environment variables. # You can set these values to whatever you wish. The UNIX example # below keeps the date format to the standard date format used # for recovery: # # %> setenv NLS_LANG AMERICAN # %> setenv NLS_DATE_FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD:hh24:mi:ss' 2. on RMAN "Complete recovery", I did not see document say that. Do I need also specify those variables on "RMAN complete recovery"? See above, please. 3. How about "hot backup/recovery"? These variables are not necessary for backup but may be for recovery. There is no such thing as a hot recovery. You can do a point in time recovery to, for example, recover dropped items. This you would do to a duplicate database and then export the dropped items and import them to the database in need of recovery. But there is no such thing as hot recovery, per se. Thanks __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l