Tricia, One sure thing that will cause duplication to fail (especially when = going off tape media manager layer, which is not the case here) is difference = in file ownership. For instance, you backed up source database as user ORAPRD. On the = auxiliary (duplicate) node you are restoring these files as user ORADEV. Two other things to consider are: difference in Oracle versions and OS=20 versions between source and auxiliary nodes. Cheers, Slava Zayarny Oracle DBA ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tricia McKellar <tricia_mckellar@xxxxxxxx> Subject: rman duplicate fails to identify file Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:38:44 -0400 Hello, I'm having trouble duplicating a db to another host with a different=20 path structure (oracle 9.2.0.6 on solaris). I'm able to connect to=20 both db's and the file rename parameters in the initDUP.ora seem to be=20 working--rman seems to know to rename /prod/oradata/vsid/ifs_lobs01.dbf TO /dup/oradata/vsid5/ifs_lobs01.dbf but rman seems to get stuck on the backup pieces. The backup files do=20 exist. I've been rman'ing to disk only (not tape). I've tried copying=20 the backup pieces to the dup host, but it still gets stuck. Ideas? ### ... restoring datafile 00034 to /dup/oradata/vsid5/ifs_lobs13.dbf restoring datafile 00035 to /dup/oradata/vsid5/ifs_lobs14.dbf RMAN-00571: = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RMAN-00569: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ERROR MESSAGE = STACK FOLLOWS =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RMAN-00571: = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 04/04/2005 13:35:00 RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script ORA-19505: failed to identify file "/prod/backup/vsid/1fggopji_1_1" ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 ### Thanks, Tricia -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l