Samir, It looks like your Rman commands are not being passed to Rman, and are instead being executed by ksh.
Try moving all of your Rman command into a separate file, and changing your rman command to: rman target / catalog rman_sid1/rman_sid1@rman817 auxiliary / cmdfile (rman command file name) msglog {output log file name) I know there is ane asier way to do this within ksh, but this would be the fastest way for me. hope this helps. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear All, I am totally out of my depth here and this is a production db which needs to be restored urgently. I shall explain my scenario first. Our application team had lost some data after last Wednesday night's backup. They have a tool to have a dump of the data from the database from which they can extract the data if needed. This dump was taken on Thursday morning. Due to some ***hole they lost some more data on Thursday during the day. They recovered this data from the database dump which they had taken on Thursday morning. They now want the data which was lost on Wednesday. Since there was no database dump available prior to this, I suggested that we can create a duplicate database upto a point of time (as on Wednesday night) to a different location on the server. They could then take a database dump with their tool and extract the lost records. This is my script which I compiled with help from Metalink and an old post from John Hallas (the backup of our target database is taken on tape with Veritas Netbackup) : #!/bin/ksh rman target / catalog rman_sid1/rman_sid1@rman817 auxiliary / run { set until time "to_date('20-MAR-2002 20:00:00','DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS)"; allocate channel c_dlt1 type 'SBT_TAPE'; allocate auxiliary channel dupdb_d1 type disk; setlimit channel c_dlt1 kbytes 67108864 maxopenfiles 128 readrate 256; setlimit channel dupdb_d1 kbytes 67108864 maxopenfiles 128 readrate 256; set newname for datafile '/disk01/oradata/sid1/data/system01sid1.dbf' to '/disk01/oradata/test/data/system01sid1.dbf'; set newname for datafile '/disk01/oradata/sid1/data/rbs01sid1.dbf' to '/disk01/oradata/test/data/rbs01sid1.dbf'; set newname for datafile '/disk01/oradata/sid1/data/temp01sid1.dbf' to '/disk01/oradata/test/data/temp01sid1.dbf'; set newname for datafile '/disk01/oradata/sid1/data/tools01sid1.dbf' to '/disk01/oradata/test/data/tools01sid1.dbf'; set newname for datafile '/disk01/oradata/sid1/data/users01sid1.dbf' to '/disk01/oradata/test/data/users01sid1.dbf'; duplicate target database to test logfile group 1 '/disk03/oradata/test/logs/log01a01sid1.dbf' size 180M, group 2 '/disk03/oradata/test/logs/log02a01sid1.dbf' size 180M, group 3 '/disk03/oradata/test/logs/log03a01sid1.dbf' size 180M; } What happens is that RMAN connects to the target, catalog and auxiliary database and goes into the RMAN prompt and just hangs there........after some time, when I type 'exit' there out of frustration, I get the following errors : ./create_dupdb.sh[5]: run: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[9]: allocate: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[11]: allocate: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[13]: setlimit: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[14]: setlimit: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[17]: /disk01/oradata/sid1/data/system01sid1.dbf: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[18]: to: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[21]: /disk01/oradata/sid1/data/rbs01sid1.dbf: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[22]: to: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[29]: /disk01/oradata/sid1/data/temp01sid1.dbf: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[30]: to: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[33]: /disk01/oradata/sid1/data/tools01sid1.dbf: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[34]: to: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[37]: /disk01/oradata/sid1/data/users01sid1.dbf: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[38]: to: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[77]: duplicate: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[79]: logfile: not found ./create_dupdb.sh[80]: group: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[81]: group: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[82]: group: cannot execute ./create_dupdb.sh[83]: syntax error at line 84 : `}' unexpected Could anybody please help me in identifying what is the problem and why does it say 'run:not found' and the other subsequent lines ?? 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