I'd been testing incomplete recoveries with different scenario's using RMAN and everything was working out fine until today where i hit a snag on recreating redologs on different host. I was testing a typical DR scenario where the production database machine is hosed for some reasons and i'd to restore the database up to the recent logs archived on to different host. Location of controlfiles, redologs, datafiles and archivelogs are different from the production machine. Below are the steps i followed leaving out the obvious ones. -- set dbid, restored spfile. modify relevant parameters like control_files, _xdump, log_archive_dest etc with new location. Also included log_file_name_convert for redologs. -- restore controlfile, mount the database run { -- set newname for all datafiles -- set until sequence to latest_archived+1 -- restore database -- switch datafile all -- recover database } -- media recovery complete. -- open database with resetlogs -- error's with ORA-00344: unable to re-create online log. For some reason the location stills maps to the path where production logs were placed. Shouldn't log_file_name_convert change the production location to new one i gave in spfile. Feedback appreciated. Regards, Stalin Ver: 9205 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l