Create Incremental Full Backup

Hey, I thought I created an incremental full backup with attached rman script.
But at the point of restoring the database it comes up, that I just have an incremental backup of the source database.
Whats wrong in my configuration ? I like to have a daily full backup of the database where just the changes to the full backup are backed up. But the backupfile should always be a full backup.
I am using 10gR2 Standard Edition
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/backup/app/control_%F';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 1;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup/app/LEVEL0_%u_%T';
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/opt/oracle/product/10gR2/db_1/dbs/snapcf_db01.f'; # default
# Database RAC Logswitch
sql 'alter system archive log current';
# Fullbackup Database - Perform incremental level 0 backup
run {
BACKUP incremental level 0 format '/backup/app/%d_Level0_%T_%U' database PLUS ARCHIVELOG format '/backup/app/%d_A
rchivelog_%T_%U';
}

An Incremental Backup is a fresh backup of all the changes that have occurred in the database since the last backup.
Thus, a Level 1 Incremental Backup is a smaller backup than the preceding Level 0 Backup.
However, when you say :
I like to have a daily full backup of the database where just the changes to the full backup are backed up. But the backupfile should always be a full backup.You seem to want an Incrementally Updated Backup. That is a backup strategy where your Backup itself is updated.
I am not sure if this is available in the Standard Edition.
Here's documentation on Incrementally Updated Backups : at 4.4.3 Incrementally Updated Backups: Rolling Forward Image Copy Backups
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm#sthref408
While this is the "normal" Incremental Backups : at 4.4 RMAN Incremental Backups
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm#sthref383
Hemant K Chitale
http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com

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