These notes indicate that you do not backup temp ts: Note:167056.1 ("Alter Tablespace Begin Backup" on a Temporary Tablespace Fails with ORA-03217) Note:167135.1 (How to Incorporate Locally Managed Temporary Tablespaces into the Backup Strategy) So, I drop and recreate the temp ts on a test restore machine. How is the default temp ts supposed to be recovered? I can drop and recreate other temp ts, but not the default defined at db creation time: SQL> drop tablespace TEMP including contents; drop tablespace TEMP including contents * ERROR at line 1: ORA-12906: cannot drop default temporary tablespace and I can't back it up with the warm backup commands, per the notes above: SQL> alter tablespace temp begin backup; alter tablespace temp begin backup * ERROR at line 1: ORA-03217: invalid option for alter of TEMPORARY TABLESPACE How should this ts be handled to complete a recovery from a warm backup? The db restores, but does not seem all together correct: on production I have this ts and datafile, the default temp ts: SQL>select TABLESPACE_NAME, FILE_NAME, bytes from DBA_TEMP_FILES; TABLESPACE_NAME FILE_NAME BYTES -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- TEMP /db05/oradata/dbx/temp01.dbf 41943040 but on the recovery db I have no datafile included in the recovery: SQL> select TABLESPACE_NAME, FILE_NAME, bytes from DBA_TEMP_FILES where TABLESPACE_NAME = 'TEMP'; no rows selected even though this tablespace does exist: SQL> select TABLESPACE_NAME, STATUS from dba_tablespaces where TABLESPACE_NAME like '%TEM%'; TABLESPACE_NAME STATUS ------------------------------ --------- TEMP ONLINE I moved the file over, but it seems I need some magic to make the ts usable. Is it just me, or has Oracle Corp really made a mess here. They don't seem to document a good recovery process. =============================================================== Ray Stell stellr@xxxxxx (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------