Hi, I've never come across an easy way to do that exclusively with RMAN, but you can rely on an OS cronjob to handle that; just use RMAN for the backups and use the OS for the deletes... something like: 10 04 * * * find /u05/oradata/MyDB -name 1\*.log(or .dbf or whatever you tag your logs as) -mtime +2 -exec rm -f {} \; - Chris -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of FMHabash Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:36 PM To: Oracle-L Group Subject: RMAN backup all but delete n days old Is there away in rman to backup all logs on disk, but delete n days old ones. The backup ... Logs ... Delete input does not allow to have separate criteria for backup vs. Delete. Thanks -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l