Hi, Spent a un-happy morning with various database jobs that reported that they failed because there was no access to the rman catalog, because the machine that was on went down, but the backup went ahead and then the job failed, causing it to be re-started by the scheduler because its set to do that on failure. As a result some of the backups were actually repeated, because the rman session could talk to TSM OK, just not the catalog. This got me to thinking, that what I would like to do in the rman command script, is to tell it to stop and exit if there is a connection error (like the whenever instruction in sqlplus), but I cannot find any reference on how to do this. Anybody know if this type of feature is available? Thanks Pete -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l