I'm doing some backup/recovery tests on a not-operative database, following the scenarios in: https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=94114.1 I'm using a hot backup as described at d.1-d.10 in the specified document; the backup ran without errors. Now, after deleting all datafiles/controlfiles/redologs, I'd like to perform a restore, but the database cannot mount as no controlfile is found. Does anybody have any suggestion? Thanks for the help, Alessandro -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l