Check crontab or task scheduler. Sometimes sysadmins schedule the tape jobs and subsequent removals, especially prior to RMAN, and this might be a leftover. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of P D Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:28 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: archivelogs scheduling I inherited a system that I only want for there to be 7 days of archivelogs kept on the server. The rest should be backed up and removed by RMAN. Right now there seems to be several weeks worth of archivelogs and I am not sure what the schedule is for them. I looked at the script and it doesn't seem to indicate how the logs are being removed or what the settings are. Where else should I look? Is there a parameter that needs to be alter to be 7 instead?