Archivelogs: recovery.

Question

Hello
I have troubles with db recovery.
I have db running in archivelog mode. I backup my db every day at 2 am by dumping it. Now I wanted to try some recovery actions. The import of dumped db goes without any troubles but I want also to recover changes that have been made since dump and which are stored in archivelogs.
Here comes my problem. When I do recovery from archivelog (using SQLplus or Qbackup - additional tool) Oracle wants archivelog with file name like 00000001. The proper archivelog to start with has name about 00000480. How to make Oracle to get the proper archivelog and then go to next, next until recovery is done?

Answer 1

1) Thank You guys for links. I will read the docs and hope it will help me.
2)
You are unclear with your requirements. Be more >specific about your requirements to advice you.Ok, so i will describe the situation of DB system that i met and the solution that have been made and which i have to check and improve.
The Firm is using an old managing application written in clipper. The network I can show as:
[Oracle server]-[Mediator server/Oracle second]-[users]
User application connects to Mediator server and the Mediator application connects to Oracle and serves data back to users.
On the Mediator server i have second Oracle instance which is runing but not mounted. Qbackup is used to restore data base using archivelogs generated on the main db server. This is the first security level - when main Oracle server fails we can quickly set up secondary one by opening db and changing Mediator settings.
The main server also exports the db at 2 am. This is second security level and I wanted to check what can i get from this dump (which is stored on the streamer tapes). I thought that I can set up new db using import and then recover last few hours using archivelogs - but You have told me that is impossibile.
The advice i ask for is how to store db on the tapes to get as much as is possible when something bad happens.
Thank You for Help :-)