Arun probably meant the recovery window in RMAN retention policy ;) "show retention policy" shows the current policy in RMAN. You can change it using: configure retention policy to recovery window of 10 days; (that was just an example) Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lex de Haan" <lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <arunrao_oradba@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 6:21 PM Subject: RE: Help needed in 8i Retention Period > retention in an AUM feature -- so you have to migrate to 9i > *and* you have to move away from using rollback segments > and rely on automatic undo management ... > > Kind regards, > Lex. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l