Don't Forget to Restore Your Read-only Tablespaces

I know, this is a basic one! But, me personally, I don't restore/recover databases everyday therefore is quite easy to forget some basics. So, supposing that you have lost all datafiles and some of them were part of some read-only tablespaces then it is important to remember that, by default, RMAN will not restore any datafiles from those read-only tablespaces. Hopefully, RMAN will display a warning, something like this: “datafile X not processed because file is read-only”, but the restore operation will go on without problems. So, in order to restore all datafiles including the ones from the read-only tablespaces then the correct command is: “RESTORE DATABASE CHECK READONLY;”.