I think the correct syntax should be: CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK CLEAR; -- Kamus <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> Visit my blog for more : http://www.dbform.com Join ACOUG: http://www.acoug.org On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, dba1 mcc <mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l