BRU incremental Backup Questions/Help

Hello Ladies and Gents,
I'm in desperate need of some help. I purchased Bru Le 1.3.0 about 2 weeks ago and going to use it for the clients Backup Strategy for over 2TB of data.
I used retrospect in the past but retro has been giving them major issues and has been unreliable; therefore the reason to switch to Bru.
Configuration: Xserve/XRAID backing up to Two sets of Lacie Drives 2x 1.8TB striped together = one single 3.6TB drive. One 3.6TB is daily and the Second is a weekly Off-site.
Let me preface this with the understanding that I'm not super savvy with Command-line....
The Goal is to Create incremental daily backup!
I started by creating a Full Backup compression level 1, now I'm trying to change that to an Incremental Backup - But when I try to select the base (which I thought would be the Full Backup I created) - I get an Error "Incorrect Base Definition" -- Which means I did this Wrong.
How do I Correctly create a proper Base Definition for an Incremental Backup?
Thanks
david
XServe - XRAID   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   Bru LE - 1.3.0
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Have you run a backup of the datafiles already?
Looking the documentation it says the following:
When using these commands, there must already exist an image copy of every datafile specified in the command. If there are multiple copies of a datafile, the latest one is used. RMAN issues an error if image copies of every datafile in the database or tablespace do not exist.From what you're saying this looks like the case with your backups.
I suggest running a backup of the current datafiles, then running a backup copy and querying RMAN to check the copy exists.
RMAN> List backup;Documenation Link: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B13789_01/server.101/b10734/rcmconc1.htm
Edited by: Kerri_Robberts on Aug 12, 2011 3:58 PM

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