Hi , I must have made a really big mess of the catalog or something. I reinstalled the catalog, recreated TEST2 and ran the clone script again. Guess what.........? Thx J&J Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 25-01-2002 11:10:19 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Jack van Zanen/nlzanen1/External/MEY/NL) Hi, Am I misreading all this, but should the auxiliary database be in existence before I can Clone to it? I created the init.ora and all directories and started TEST3 in nomount. I created the password file and can connect to it with a connect string no problem. Another point is. Did you mean that the auxilliary database is the database that needs to be cloned (source)? Jack "Jay Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23-01-2002 15:41:35 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: John and Jack, I guess I didn't read Jack's info closely enough, since he states that his auxiliary database is already started nomount. I wonder if the three separate connect statements are the issue? When I duplicate a database, I use the following commands from the OS: >rman target internal/xxx@original catalog rman/xxx@rman1 auxiliary / rman>@prod_to_test rman>exit My ORACLE_HOME and SID are set for the auxiliary database. I have started the auxiliary database NOMOUNT, which basically just starts the background processes. Password files are required for the remote login (this is on a different server). I don't use db_file_name_convert or log_file_name_convert, because I group the data files differently on this server (I don't have the exact same number of file systems as production). After I have RMAN started, I do the following: run { #set until time "to_date('01082002200000','mmddyyyyhh24miss')"; set until scn 316498395; #set until logseq 1389 thread 1; allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk; set newname for datafile 1 to '/u03/oradata/BSCST/system01.dbf'; set newname for datafile 2 to '/u03/oradata/BSCST/rbs01.dbf'; ... ...yadda yadda yadda... ... set newname for datafile 49 to '/u04/oradata/BSCST/bill_image_data06.dbf'; set newname for datafile 50 to '/u04/oradata/BSCST/process_data03.dbf'; duplicate target database to BSCST logfile group 1 ('/u03/oradata/BSCST/redo1a.log','/u04/oradata/BSCST/redo1b.log') size 2m, group 2 ('/u03/oradata/BSCST/redo2a.log','/u04/oradata/BSCST/redo2b.log') size 2m, group 3 ('/u03/oradata/BSCST/redo3a.log','/u04/oradata/BSCST/redo3b.log') size 2m; } Jay Hostetter Oracle DBA D. & E. Communications Ephrata, PA USA >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/02 03:20AM >>> Jay,Jack I don't understand here how RMAN connects to auxilliary when Jack seems to be saying that the database does not exist it all. When I tested a duplicate database session I made the following notes which indicated I need a remote_login_password file setting up. I assume you didn't do this then Jack as the database was not created at this point in time Please correct me if I have misunderstood John My notes follow +++++++++++++++++++ To allow this connection a remote_login_password file needs to be in place. This can be created running the orapwd command $ORACLE_HOME/bin/orapwd file$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/ orapwSID password = xxxxxx entries=10 Then add the line remote_login_passwordfile=exclusive to the init.ora and start the database in exclusive mode (using the initSID_excl.ora file in the pfile directory). 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