Is incremental backup possible for archivelog.

Hi expert
i want to plan weekly and daily backup with windows redundancy 14 days.
full archivelog backup script
run
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET
INCREMENTAL LEVEL = 0
DEVICE TYPE DISK
TAG = 'WEEKLY_ARCHIVELOG'
FORMAT '/oracle/ITB/db/apps_st/rman_backup/weekly_archivelog_%d_t%t_s%s_p%p'
ARCHIVELOG FROM TIME 'SYSDATE-7';
daily backup script
run
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET
INCREMENTAL LEVEL = 1
DEVICE TYPE DISK
TAG = 'DAILY_INCREMENTAL_ARCHIVELOG'
FORMAT '/oracle/ITB/db/apps_st/rman_backup/daily_incremental_archivelog_%d_t%t_s%s_p%p'
ARCHIVELOG FROM TIME 'SYSDATE-1';
my question that if i will take backup then, will be any gap in sequnce
and second question is that ---is there incremental backup possible for archivelog.
os =aix6 and database 10g2

afzal wrote:
Dear Sir,
ok question number 2 is clear that incremental backup is not possible but still confuse
about sequence
if i did take backup of 17 feb at 12 o'clock seq 1,2,3,4
after that i did take backup 18th fab 1 pm then it will take from 6,7,8-------seq 5 is missing
please please correct my archive log script for weekly and daily backup with windows redundancy 14 days
again please correct my script
thnaksWHy you think the archive log file number 5 will be missing? RMAN automatically archives current redo log files and backups it
Why you don't test your backup script by your own and check results? Never trust anyone on your critical databases' backups, do it by your own!
Kamran Agayev A.
Oracle ACE
My Oracle Video Tutorials - http://kamranagayev.wordpress.com/oracle-video-tutorials/

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