RMAN crosscheck problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hash: SHA1

Can someone explain to me what's going on here? I recently queried my RMAN catalog and found a lot of old backups, much older than the configured retention period of 30 days. I run a "delete obsolete" once a week so I was surprised to find things well over a year old on the catalog. If I run "crosscheck backup" it doesn't even find any of the old backup sets, but if a do a "crosscheck backupset <bs_key>" (i.e. specify the backup set ID's manually) for the backups in question, it finds them and marks them as expired. Why doesn't the "crosscheck backup" find these old backups? The databases in question have only ever had one incarnation.

RMAN and database versions are both 9.2.0.5. The catalog version is 10.1.0.

TIA

• -- To reply by email remove "_nospam"
  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32)

iEYEARECAAYFAkMm1uAACgkQzIf+rZpn0oTvcwCdENalM6s2KCifedlStjJE2z1Y bFIAnR/tFCw+JDAGCMaU9iDzUnmnjIP3
=M9aP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Received on Tue Sep 13 2005 - 08:40:48 CDT