Re: RMAN Backup Strange Behavior

"... for about 3 days now, I noticed that physical backups from previous
nights are not deleted (database files, archivelogs and control file autobackups)."

There is no obvious reason for this; Try the command report obsolete redundancy n (1,2,3...) and see what it gives.

"...Instead archivelogs that are not required before the database backup
are what is reported and deleted."

This is a normal behaviour, since you have backuped the archivelogs you don't need both backup of archivelogs
and archivelogs themselves to satisfy the retention policy, so the archivelogs are deleted.

"...I then crosscheck the files in the location specified and the records
still do not show up in RMAN. "

I'm not following you here ...What is shown and what is not shown?

Dragutin

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