From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Perry if you run backup archivelog all... delete input; rman won't delete the archive logs that haven't been applied to the standby. you should receive the following error: RMAN-08137: WARNING: archive log not deleted as it is still needed What Oracle version is the first to support it? As far as I know 9i does not handle this. btw: my solution always was to query v$-views in order to find the last transmitted log SEQ and provide "until sequence" for the rman. Fyrirvari/Disclaimer http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer