We have been doing tablespace backups because any other backup was filling the DLT tape we where using....

I was tring to create a test database from our production backup.....

RESTORE database FLPRDFLA TABLESPACE(DATA01) from /db_backup/DATA01 into FLPRDRST buffer 256 WITHOUT ROLLING FORWARD without prompting
SQL2560N The target database is not identical to the source database for a
restore from a table space level backup.

Is there anyway to get around this????

Thanks.....

no way to create a db from ts backup. even if restoring in same database you can not if ts has been dropped..