List, The ITAR has produced a resolution but not a reason. The resolution is to change the file naming to use the %U parameter to = quarantee uniqueness. Apparently the %d_%t_%T was unique by chance last week but not this week. They are checking into the change in 10.1.0.4 and I will make the changes = in the scripts. RMAN nocatalog connect target "rman10/rman10prd@redhatprd-tcp" run { allocate channel d1 type disk format '/u03/backups/lev0_%d_%U_%T.bus'; set limit channel d1 kbytes 5000000; backup incremental level 0 database skip readonly (current controlfile); release channel d1; } Thanks, Ron -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l