and doh! I'm only guessing because I didn't see the level column in your output, so you do tell us what the backups were, sorry for that. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > You don't say what the older backups are, I'm *guessing* a mixture of full > and incremental. > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info