RMAN Restore with Incremental

From: Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 02:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <705398.13535.qm@web50207.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hi All,
I'm a bit confused by this RMAN behaviour. I have a full backup and a level 1 incremental a few days later. However if I restore (preview) it only attempts to use the level 1 (example below). Surely this is of no use without the preceeding full backup. What am I missing? Thank you for any hints! (10.2.0.3 EE)
Charlotte  

RMAN> list backup of database summary;  

List of Backups

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Key TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag ------- -- -- - ----------- --------------- ------- ------- ---------- --- 397695 B F A DISK 27-MAR-08 1 1 YES
TAG20080327T132047
409400 B 1 A DISK 31-MAR-08 1 1 YES
TAG20080331T021633 RMAN> restore validate database;
Starting restore at 02-APR-08
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting validation of datafile backupset channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /oracle/FRA/TESTDB/backupset/2008_03_31/o1_mf_nnnd1_TAG20080331T021633_3z0gvkk3_.bkp channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1 piece
handle=/oracle/FRA/TESTDB/backupset/2008_03_31/o1_mf_nnnd1_TAG20080331T021633_3z0gvkk3_.bkp tag=TAG20080331T021633
channel ORA_DISK_1: validation complete, elapsed time: 00:00:47 Finished restore at 02-APR-08  

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