Hi , Now you are facing another problem (you need to manually put your control file at the right incarnation) Can you execute the following command and post the result: rman> list incarnation of database; Dragutin 2012/11/11 keydana@xxxxxx <keydana@xxxxxx> > Hi Dragutin, > > many thanks for your doublecheck! And please excuse the delay, I was on > vacation. > > > > This is a normal and expected behaviour, all files were restored and > recovered to their point in time,except the files that are unkown to the > control file used. One more reason to use the rman catalog. > > > > I have performed your test (the exact same steps) using a catalog - and > now RMAN restores file 3 ( the one not in the autobackup controlfile any > more) but the restore fails with ORA-19653: cannot switch to older file > incarnation > > So I don't get something that "wasn't in the database at any point in > time" now, but restore fails.... > > Or did you imply different steps to be executed/additional information to > be extracted from the catalog? > > Best greetings > Sigrid > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l