Paula - I think you are correct. In my environment I just use RMAN to back up to disk. I haven't found an advantage to having RMAN back up the archive logs. Anyway it sounds like Ruth has provided some good advice that is closer to your actual issue. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:09 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: restore/recovery I don't think that is quite true. If your system admin. blows the box away and you are doing a restore - so no online redo - then without using recover database you don't get the archivelog files restored for recovery unless you restore the archivelog files separate - right? My thought was that recover database in this cause would restore necessary archive files. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of DENNIS WILLIAMS Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:57 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: restore/recovery Paula - If RMAN recovery encounters problems, I exit RMAN and just log into Oracle (svrmgrl in 8i, sqlplus in 9i) and perform the recovery there. I believe that for recovery RMAN is just issuing the same commands to the RDBMS. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:16 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: restore/recovery -Solaris 2.8 -Oracle 8.0.6 Restoring - restore says it is complete but recovery keeps failing or hanging: connect target $TARGET@$DBNAME run { execute script alloc_all_tapes; restore controlfile to '/data/oradata/CSTAT/ctrl/control01.ctl'; allocate channel d1 type disk; replicate controlfile from '/data/oradata/CSTAT/ctrl/control01.ctl'; sql 'alter database mount'; restore database until time "to_date('JAN 27 2004 12:00:00','MON DD YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"; sql 'alter database open resetlogs'; execute script rel_all_tapes; } EOD ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------