Can't resume incremental backups

I fist finished moving and after a few weeks of sitting in a box I set up my Time Capsule to resume operation as my backup device and wireless router. Unfortunately, I must have made a mistake during setup because now my MacBook Pro is treating the TC as a completely new device, seeking to make a full backup of its entire hard drive rather than the first incremental backup since before the move. Is there some way of forcing my MBP to recognize the existing backups on the TC and pick up where it left off? I'd really appreciate some help because I've got some valuable old files trapped in those old backups. Thanks!

I think i have an idea of why this might be happening now but don't know how to fix this. any help would be appreciated.
so i checked this directory
/Volumes/Time Machine Backup 2/Backups.backupdb
and there were two directories. a new one called "computer" and the old folder with my backups "computer 2", so Time Machine must be looking at the "computer" folder. How can I force Time Machine to look at the other older folder? I tried removing the "computer" folder but it won't let me rename "computer 2" to "computer", even from the terminal using sudo and admin privileges. Is there a reason why I'm not allowed rename files on my own machine when I'm the admin?
thanks

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Kindly share the procedure if any by which we can initiate an incremental backup without Level 0 backup

Kindly share the procedure if any by which we can initiate an incremental backup without Level 0 backup
There is NO such procedure.
You can't 'increment' something that doesn't exist can you?
Please increment the previous number by 1. Can you do that? Of course not because there IS no previous number.
BY DEFINITION (see the doc) an incremental backup for any level but 0 REQUIRES a previous backup:
an incremental backup copies only those data blocks that have changed since a previous backup
A level 1 incremental backup can be either of the following types:
A differential incremental backup, which backs up all blocks changed after the most recent incremental backup at level 1 or 0
A cumulative incremental backup, which backs up all blocks changed after the most recent incremental backup at level 0
Incremental backups are differential by default.

Can I delete incremental backups on my harddisks?

I use a mac pro with four internal hard drives. Typically one of the hard drives is JUST for backing up files.
A. I don't really need dated or incrementals
B. I only use that drive as a backup
C. Currently, I have one full back up and one months worth of incremental backups already saved to the drive.
But I'm noticing that (obviously) Backup is eating away at the free space on that drive.
Questions:
1. Can I delete older increments?
2. Can I restore directly from the Full backup and just disregard the increments altogether?

my apologies. This was posted to the wrong forum.

About incremental backup

Dear Friends ,
We have a ORacle 10g database server which is 24x7 hours running . We take everyday RMAN full backup ,now we want to run "Incremental rman backup" 6 days in a week and "Full Backup" rest of the week . But in oracle article we read that
"RMAN can only create incremental backups of datafiles, not of archived redo log files or other files."
(source: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup001.htm#BRBSC131)
In this moment I think , archivelog is very important for database recovery and it is necessary to take archivelog backup regularly .Now if we want to run Incremental backup then I think I cannot take "archivelog" backup using following script :
run
allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' parms
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
sql "alter system switch logfile";
backup incremental level 1 database plus archivelog;
Give me some idea plz ... ...what should I need to ?

Sorry Hemant ,
Accroding to ur advice , I run the script following way :
run
allocate channel t1 type disk;
backup incremental level 1 database;
sql "alter system switch logfile";
backup archivelog;
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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands
RMAN-01009: syntax error: found ";": expecting one of: "all, from, high, like, logseq, low, scn, sequence, time, until"
RMAN-01007: at line 6 column 18 file: standard input
RMAN>
But when I use the following script , it shows no error :
run
allocate channel t1 type disk;
sql "alter system switch logfile";
backup incremental level 1 database plus archivelog;
I think here database is backup only using LEVEL 1 , but archivelog is backed up full . Here is the output :
RMAN> run
2> {
3> allocate channel t1 type disk;
4> sql "alter system switch logfile";
5> backup incremental level 1 database plus archivelog;
6> }
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: t1
channel t1: sid=159 devtype=DISK
sql statement: alter system switch logfile
Starting backup at 29-JUL-08
current log archived
channel t1: starting archive log backupset
channel t1: specifying archive log(s) in backup set
input archive log thread=1 sequence=2 recid=1 stamp=661354070
input archive log thread=1 sequence=3 recid=2 stamp=661354123
input archive log thread=1 sequence=4 recid=3 stamp=661354895
input archive log thread=1 sequence=5 recid=4 stamp=661354935
input archive log thread=1 sequence=6 recid=5 stamp=661355047
input archive log thread=1 sequence=7 recid=6 stamp=661355050
input archive log thread=1 sequence=8 recid=7 stamp=661355072
input archive log thread=1 sequence=9 recid=8 stamp=661355327
channel t1: starting piece 1 at 29-JUL-08
channel t1: finished piece 1 at 29-JUL-08
piece handle=C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\FLASH_RECOVERY_AREA\TESTDB\BACKUPSET\2008_07_29\O1_MF_ANNNN_TAG20080729T143725_48
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input datafile fno=00003 name=C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\ORADATA\TESTDB\SYSAUX01.DBF
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input datafile fno=00004 name=C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\ORADATA\TESTDB\USERS01.DBF
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channel t1: finished piece 1 at 29-JUL-08
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Restoring incremental backup in QAS_ECC6_Ora_10G_Unix

Dear All,
We have restored PRD data in QAS about 4 months back upto 2009. Now we wish to restore the production data for the months of Jan to Apri;2010 in QAS. We can not afford restoring PRD whole data in QAS as it is more than 1.5 TB and it will take at least 3 to 4 days. We have the incremental databackup for these months with us (RMAN backup). Even we do have archive logs for this period.
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Thanks
S@pm@n

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Is it possible to apply archive logs in QAS (database open state), I believe we can not do this once we open the database.
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For restoring incremental backup also you need 0 level database restore first(You can not restore incremental backup of PRD directly on QAS) , so every case you need to restore almost 1.5TB of data.
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Click the Browse button above and navigate to your new folder “PSE10 incr backup 2012-0104”
Click Done.
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I've done the full backup to an external drive. When attempting to do the incremental backup I follow the prompt to select the destication and do the browse to locate the previous backup folder.
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???? Help please.

Don’t use the same folder, make a new one. Once you have a full back up you can make incremental back ups but you need to follow a set routine. It’s not very intuitive.
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You are welcome.
I don't think there is a need to start a new discussion unless you want to.
You should have more than one backup of each computer. Hard drives do fail. Time Machine can alternate drives or have a Time Machine and a clone.
The concern arises because i was told that when a wireless Time Machine backup is interrupted the sparsebundle gets sort of "locked" or "damaged", and although the backups can be accessed, no further Time Machine backup is possible. One must that a brand new backup.
Apple support article. Don't let the title bother you. Look at Additional Information, which explains what happens when a backup gets interrupted. I also am including a link for troubleshooting. C3 explains what you can try if the backup is interrupted.
Time Machine First Backup Interrupted
Time Machine Troubleshooting

Can I use an incremental backup disk for a restore function?

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jdrefr wrote:
I have loaded PSE7 on my new PC. I have a full backup set and also an incremental set created after the full backup. After doing a File/Restore with the full backup set, can I use the incremental set to add the remaining picutures or do I need to do a new full backup first and only use it? If I can use the incremental set, are the steps to load it the same as for the full backup?
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Martin_Had a écrit:
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