Hi all, I am having spermatic (Oracle 9.2 on Win2K3) during cold backup. I can see in the rman log file that database goes down completely, but when it comes back up it reports the error: Errors in file d:\ora2003\app\oracle\admin\repd\bdump\repd_lgwr_3528.trc: ORA-01110: data file 44: 'D:\ORACLE_SAN\INDEX\SALES_INDX\REPD_SALES_INDX_01.ORA' ORA-01114: IO error writing block to file 44 (block # 1) ORA-27041: unable to open file OSD-04002: unable to open file O/S-Error: (OS 32) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. I can see that our BI application had a job scheduled at the same time against this d/b, but not sure if it can hold one of the files locked because d/base went down completely (according to the rman log file). Where else can I look? [cid:image001.png@01CCCEB2.AB3DDB00] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l