I do what I can in the time I have... :-) What I need is the log with the output that contains the error you got. Cheers! RF Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales on Amazon.com! BLOG: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com/ Sig V1.2 -----Original Message----- From: hrishy [mailto:hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:40 PM To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx; jkstill@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RMAN-05019 Warning Oracle reccommended backup Hi Robert Thanks for taking a look at this . (hmm i know you are a RMAN warrior :-) and was kind of surprised that you didnt join the part earlier but this is a voluantry forum so you can take your time :-) Well look at this backup logs which i am attaching in a zip format They all seem to be okay The whole thread is also here http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56197 regards Hrishy ____________________________________________________ Which email service gives you unlimited storage? http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l