I am not sure I understand. I may want to restore from a Level 0 backup that was taken 3 days ago. When I did a CROSSCHECK BACKUP it showed it as AVAILABLE. In the log however I found where there is also a datafile copy (actually controlfile backup) that is several months old that is showing up as mismatched which therefore couldn't be deleted from disk channel. I am trying to figure out if old copy will interfere or prevent me from restoring from the backup that was taken 3 days ago? Or when it says something like that is mismatched does it basically mean it is like a ghost copy in catalog that just needs to be cleaned up but won't interfere with restore of current copy. Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:10:02 +0530 Subject: Re: RMAN restore question From: jvmster@xxxxxxxxx To: pdba1966@xxxxxxxxxxx CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx hi, pleas try to use until sequence option....based on sequence numer u will get that. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:31 AM, P D <pdba1966@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Will receiving the following error affect a restore from a backup taken 3 days ago if the Datafile Copy that the warning is referring to is actually very old. RMAN-06207: WARNING: 1 objects could not be deleted for DISK channel(s) due RMAN-06208: to mismatched status. Use CROSSCHECK command to fix status RMAN-06210: List of Mismatched objects RMAN-06211: ========================== RMAN-06212: Object Type Filename/Handle RMAN-06213: --------------- --------------------------------------------------- RMAN-06214: Datafile Copy /u03/backup/prod_nmnr/20100419/Fri_controlfile.bkp The backup script itself runs a Level 0 backup using target database control file instead of recovery catalog. The recovery manager backup from 3 days ago completed. The script then connects to the catalog and does the following: crosscheck backup; crosscheck archivelog all; delete noprompt expired backup of database; delete noprompt obsolete; Ran a CROSSCHECK BACKUP command and the backup from 3 days ago is showing up as AVAILABLE. Was just wondering what the affect of the warning for the old controlfile might have on a restore. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l