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

Oracle Error Message

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

Reason for the Error

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.

Solution

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.