Hi A friend of mine is using oracle suggested backup and he is running into RMAN-05019: WARNING: no channel of required type allocated to recover copy of datafile The doc says to use LIST command and then allocate the proper type SHow device type; RMAN configuration parameters are: CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default RMAN> show datafile backup copies; RMAN configuration parameters are: CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default Any ideas how we can help regards Hrishy ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l