RE: Recover after rman restore asks for a VERY OLD archive log

i guess you have had offline files on the source database? and offline since a long time?
check and compare status and checkpoint_change# in v$datafile_header. if yes:
you could try to skip the problematic datafile using a syntax like:
recover datafile 1,2,3, ... until cancel using backup controlfile; #just all files but the problematic file(s) Cheers Mathias

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