I just suffered a failed restore of a database using my previous night's RMAN backup which is held on disk under the FRA .
The reason being that Oracle in it's infinte wisdom had decided to delete some backupsets (Oracle managed files) from the Fast Recovery Area.
I believe Oracle was managing the space in the Fast Recovery Area and since I had backed the FRA to tape it felt it could reuse the space?
Now my question is pretty simple, can I use RMAN to restore these deleted backupsets from tape to disk?
My thoughts are, if I can retrieve the deleted backupset files (*.bkp) I will be able to use my last night's backup to restore/recover the database.