Thank you Fraze and marist89. You are both very observant. I apologize for the oversight. I cut and pasted my details and must have lost the "restore database" clause.

Based on what I am seeing in the backup listing, I should be able to just issue the following command, I think...

restore database from tag=tagname;

This fails when I attempt to do it with the following error:

Starting restore at 12-NOV-03

using channel ORA_DISK_1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 11/12/2003 11:58:55
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 12 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 11 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 10 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 7 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 5 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 4 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore

For some reason rman is not recognizing Backup Set 3.


In addition I also try to use the
restore datafile integer;
and that works fine as long as I only refer to those pieces in backup set 2. If I try to reference any pieces in backup set 3, I get the following error:

Starting restore at 12-NOV-03

using channel ORA_DISK_1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 11/12/2003 12:02:55
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 12 found to restore


Again sorry for leaving out the restore portion of my description. I do appreciate your help.