You should verify the state of the objects. After the deletion of the files via
RMAN the state should change from active to inactive. Be sure your RetO value is
set to 0 otherwise the files will be kept for some time depending your settings
in the managementclass. When the files become inactive, the retention is set to
0 and the expiration on the server has run the files should disappear.

Hope this helps,

Michel





"<James> <healy>" <James.Healy2 AT AXACS DOT COM> on 01/12/2001 10:49:32 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Michel Engels/BE/Devoteam)

Subject:  deleting rman data



i have a question about verifying the deletion of rman data.
i'd like to know how anyone verifies that old versions of rman files are
getting deleted.
My DBAs say they are running the commands to expire old versions but I
don't see it happening
Are there any commands that I could erify this with.
I've checked q occ and the number of files does not decrease for that rman
client.