How to fix the Oracle error ORA-19659: incremental restore would advance file string past RESETLOGS?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-19659: incremental restore would advance file string past RESETLOGS with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-19659: incremental restore would advance file string past RESETLOGS

Reason for the Error ORA-19659: incremental restore would advance file string past RESETLOGS

This incremental backup cannot be applied to the specified datafile, because the datafile is from an earlier incarnation of the database, and its checkpoint would be advanced too far to be recoverable in the current incarnation of the database.

How to fix the Error ORA-19659: incremental restore would advance file string past RESETLOGS ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

This incremental cannot be applied to this datafile. If you wish to recover the file to the RESETLOGS SCN so that the database can be opened with the RESETLOGS option, then you must use redo-log recovery, not incremental restore, to continue recovering this file.