A backup occurs each night. The relevant part of the script is below. Report obsolete does not list my archivelogs, even after crosschecking backups and archivelogs. I've logged an SR. Thank you, Jay allocate channel ch1 type disk format 'H:\Oracle_Backups\%d\full_s%s_p%p_t%t.bck'; backup as compressed backupset check logical database filesperset 4 tag='daily_full_backup'; allocate channel ch2 type disk format 'H:\Oracle_Backups\%d\arc_s%s_p%p_t%t.bck'; # backup as compressed backupset tag='daily_arch_backup' archivelog all channel ch2; On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How many database backups do you have? I'd read your policy as obsoleting > archive logs no longer required for your oldest level 0 backup. That is I > expect having 2 backups of the db more recent than the oldest log would do > the trick. The RMAN command report obsolete should help. > > Niall Litchfield > > > >