Ed, We have a similar setup here. We have to manually clean the logs (cronjob) since only the softlinks gets deleted by the Oracle LSB apply. We basically have 2 destinations: log_archive_dest_1 has valid_for=(ALL_LOGFILES,ALL_ROLES) (that is where the physical archives are sitting) log_archive_dest_2 has valid_for=(STANDBY_LOGFILES, STANDBY_ROLE) I don't have a place to test as we only have this in production but I suspect log_archive_dest_2 setting is what causes the softlinks - Ravi On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Edward Lewis <eglewis71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I have a rac cluster, with dataguard replicating > to a logical standby, as well as a physical standby. > All environments are using ASM. > > I use RMAN to back up the archive logs on the LSB. > The LSB is a set up to delete the archive logs once they are > backed up. When I check the alert log, it shows the archive logs > being deleted. When I check the archive log location on ASM, > the archive logs still remains. > They way ASM is set up is has a soft link to the actual archive > log files in the archive log directory. Here is an example. > > srptpre_dcea562_1_919_702560930.arc => > +REM_ARCH/srptpre/ARCHIVELOG/2010_02_02/thread_1_seq_919.670.709896975 > > So, when Oracle deletes the archive log, it just removes the link > name. > In this case, that would be "srptpre_dcea562_1_919_702560930.arc". > The actual archive log file, > "+REM_ARCH/srptpre/ARCHIVELOG/2010_02_02/thread_1_seq_919.670.709896975" > still remains. It does not get deleted. > > Has anyone seen this sort of behavior ? Is there a way to have the archive > log deleted also ? > > Sun solaris 10, oracle 10.2.0.4. > > thanks >