Thanks for your explanation Jerome. But even if we change the location of controlfile auto backup , we can always restore from any location as RMAN > restore controlfile from <full path of backup piece name> ; Regards, Prem. On 8/23/05, Vitalis Jerome <vitalisman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Prem, > > It looks for the default autobackup location ($ORACLE_HOME/dbs for > 9i/Unix for backups to disks). Otherwise you have to specify the > location that was used when overriding this default location. > That's why it's not a very good idea to not keep the default location > in the persistant configuration (unless you're not comfortable with > having backups under ./dbs) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l