Monthly Backup Plan using Incremental Backups

I would like to have a monthly backup plan as explained in the oracle documentation:
First Friday of the month: Full Backup (Incremental Level 0)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: Incremental Level 1
2nd, 3rd, 4th Friday: Cumulative Incremental Backups Level 1
As I understand is that the 4th cumulative incremental backup will contain all the changes from the full backup.
Is there any way so that the 4th friday backup will contain only the changes since the 3rd Friday and so on?

user12075536123 wrote:
Thank you for advice.
I understand Oracle has "backup level 0-4"
I checked the document
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10643/rcmsynta007.htm#i78895
INCREMENTAL LEVEL integer
Copies only those data blocks that have changed since the last incremental integer backup, where integer is 0 or 1
I understand Oracle has only level 0 and 1
I tested
==================================================
RMAN> backup incremental level 0 database;
Starting backup at 18-SEP-13
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=64 instance=orcl device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental level 0 datafile backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
Finished backup at 18-SEP-13
RMAN> backup incremental level 1 database;
Starting backup at 18-SEP-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental level 1 datafile backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
Finished backup at 18-SEP-13
RMAN> backup incremental level 2 database;
Starting backup at 18-SEP-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental level 2 datafile backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
Finished backup at 18-SEP-13
RMAN> backup incremental level 3 database;
Starting backup at 18-SEP-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental level 3 datafile backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
Finished backup at 18-SEP-13
RMAN> backup incremental level 4 database;
Starting backup at 18-SEP-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental level 4 datafile backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
Finished backup at 18-SEP-13
RMAN> backup incremental level 5 database;
Starting backup at 18-SEP-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 09/18/2013 21:32:58
RMAN-06011: invalid level specified: 5
==================================================
why！！
Since there is no documentation of any level beyond 1, I can only guess that it is for backward compatibility.

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