I am new to Oracle administration and have an issue with our current backup. From what I see, our retention policy is set to 7 days. The backup runs and as part of the backup it pulls all the small archivelogs into fewer larger archivelogs. Given the retention policy, within a week I should be able to delete the old archivelogs that should be showup as expired. What is strange is that their status appears to be stuck at Available. Does anyone have an idea as to why that might be? The rest of the backup gets deleted accordingly, the incrementat as well as the full backup, but the log files stay put requiring me to connect to the system and manually delete about once a month. Any insight into this would be helpful. Thanks