I am assuming some flavor of 9i or 8.1.7. Having said this; Did you try to do a recover in sqlplus? The command would be; recover database using backup control file until cancel (or until time... or until scn ...); Did you do a point in time restore? If not, you will definitely need to do the recovery outside of rman. Do this as / as sysdba or sys/password to avoid any problems with permissions. Call me if you want! (reply to me only and I will send my phone#); Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:44 AM To: tjambu_freelists@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: database duplication T rying to duplicate a database fails with the following errors: RMAN-06136: ORACLE error from auxiliary database: ORA-06550: line 1, column 166: PLS-00553: character set name is not recognized ORA-06550: line 0, column 0: PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated RMAN-06031: could not translate database keyword RMAN> Then when I try alter database open reselogs I get: ORA-01547: warning: RECOVER succeeded but OPEN RESETLOGS would get error below ORA-01194: file 1 needs more recovery to be consistent ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u01/oradata/gispr2/system01.dbf' Help.