In theory you should always be able to do an Incomplete Recovery
[until the latest archive log you have available] provided that no database
file was still in backup mode till a point in time after the last archive log.
How do you backup your tablespaces ?
Which archive logs are included in your
We do disaster recovery tests from time to time with a limited set of
backups. We make an educated quess as to the time to recover but it doesn't
always work. If I give Oracle a point in time to recover and then run out
of archive logs how do I tell Oracle that that's all I have and recover with