I am doing RMAN testing on ORACLE 11G. I tried to "clear" disk format setting but failed. RMAN> show all; RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name EBSDEV08 are: CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/tmp/%U'; RMAN> CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT CLEAR; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01009: syntax error: found "clear": expecting one of: "double-quoted-string, equal, new, single-quoted-string" RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 43 file: standard input any ideal??? Thanks. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l