Tony,
Thanks. I did come across that one, but the doco tells me that it will verify the physical existence of the backup, doesn't it?
crosscheck will mark the backup piece as expired status in case if it is unreadable or absent. crosscheck archivelog all command basically remove the reference from RMAN repository when objects no longer available on disk. -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain Oracle ACE 8i,9i & 10g OCP DBA http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/oracle_ace/ace1.html#hussain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently."