Originally posted by Axr2
Aargh..that sucks. How does it work in the real world? Do DBA's really keep track of backups by keeping the catalog upto date and deleting backup pieces manually everytime a backup fails? Or do they back up the rman logfiles as well and leave it at that? Come "show time" (or database recovery time), they learn it the hard way - that one of the incrementals was hosed. Then restore the backup RMAN logfiles to verify that a backup had indeed failed on such and such day. And THEN go about removing the pieces from the catalog?

Sorry about whining!

Thanks for your response Jeff.
DBAs are there to take care of all those deviations from scheduled routien activities.. no way you avoiding that.. 100% automation is not good and not efficient too..