Thanks Niall. The light bulb came on reading your reply. Cheers, Steve On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l