Re: Recovery scenario

> Why would oracle ask for a file that is from 5am when the backup finished at
> 1 30am. Is it the "UNTIL CANCEL" that made the difference?

Because system01.dbf required redo to bring in consistent with all
other datafiles. One way to avoid this is: switch logfiles immediately
after backuping up datafiles, and then backup those archived redo.
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