Hi All, Good day. My configuration: I use 11gR201 SE1 primary with a standby database configured using manual shipping of logs and applying them using cronjobs. I am trying to use rman backup archivelog based on the completion time since the archive logs get deleted by rman nightly cronjob of the db+archive logs. The present command used is "backup archivelog from time 'sysdate -3/24' until time 'sysdate - 30/1440';" but i would like to base this on completion time rather than creation time. What am i doing wrong here. Thanks in advance. RMAN> BACKUP ARCHIVELOG COMPLETED BETWEEN 'SYSDATE-28' AND 'SYSDATE-7'; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01009: syntax error: found "completed": expecting one of: "all, from, high, like, low, scn, sequence, time, until" RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 19 file: standard input RMAN> BACKUP ARCHIVELOG COMPLETION TIME BETWEEN 'SYSDATE-30' AND 'SYSDATE'; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01009: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "all, from, high, like, low, scn, sequence, time, until" RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: COMPLETION RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 19 file: standard input -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l