On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Janine Sisk <janine@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > run { > recover copy of database > with tag 'incremental'; > backup > incremental level 1 > for recover of copy with tag 'incremental' > check logical database > plus archivelog delete input; > } Hi, Keep in mind that your script is not a backup in pure meaning of that word. You are doing only a incremental backup which is recovered into copy of database files in FRA. Do you have a backup of data files in any other location ? In your case you can restore into point of time - as you are applying incremental backup every day. Do you have RMAN backup of level 0 which can be used as a base backup in point in time recovery ? > I have one problem I don't know how to solve... while I was messing around, I > managed to lose all my archive logs. That would be ok in itself, except that > I can't get RMAN to forget about them. I deleted all my backups and copies > and started over, but the "restore archivelog all validate" still gives > > RMAN-06025: no backup of archived log for thread 1 with sequence 1613 and > starting SCN of 256369082 found to restore > Is this logseq 1613 close to current one ? This error mean that Oracle is trying to check if it has all archive log required to restore from base backup until current position. -- Marcin Przepiorowski http://oracleprof.blogspot.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l