This sounds interesting. I'll investigate. So that I might save some trial and error investigating I will ask: What we do is IMMEDIATELY copy the most recent rman files to tape upon completion of the rman backup; then upon successful completion of copying the most recent files to tape, delete the previous day's backup. Does staging do all of this for you automatically (i.e. delete the files you want deleted)? -----Original Message----- Legato has a feature called staging, which we are using. In short, we backup up to disk, then based on age of the files, 2 days, 5 days, 7days, the savesets are moved to tape. Works great. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------