Thanks so much for bearing with me.

Actually I just found out (through another person's similar old query to Oracle) that RMAN can only 'see' the target server.

So I have to NFS mount the catalog (or wherever I want it to backup to) server directories onto the target server. I personally thing that it is pathetic, that the software can only see it's own directories by default. I mean who in their right mind would want to back up to the same server???

And now if I want several databases backed up, I have to do this each time.. Where is the sense? If they had to default to some directory it makes sense that it should have been the catalog server directories.

Anyway, I guess I have to work within those brilliant limitations.

Thanks for your help and hope that your backup is much better.

Nirasha