I just wrapped up a 3 day full restore of Oracle and in doing so, gained a much better handle on wrangling my backup software. To important points. When restoring a backup job whose files were archived over more than 1 day, restore the job by its session object, not by using a date selection. The second important note is to restore filesystems concurrently. Another recommendation after I was finished was to select 'restore sparse files'. Now it's time for some sleep.