> > We were having a problem this morning that the archiver process on one of > the production databases was stuck. > Our DBA just did a "rm *.arc" on the archive destinations directories. Not > really elegant, but it solved the immediate problem... ;) > > Now if we invoke RMAN, it "complains" that it would like to write the (now > non-existent) archive logs to tape. > > Is there any way to tell RMAN to skip the archive logs that are missing and > continue with the new ones? > This depends on the version of Oracle/RMAN that you are using. 8.0 - change archivelog all validate 8.1 - change archive log all crosscheck 9.2 - Sorry, you'll have to look that one up, I'm not yet using RMAN on the 9i databases. The 8.0 and 8.1 commands are on a post-it next to my monitor. :) Jared