Right way to delete the archive - Oracle
In order to delete them you can do: RMAN&gt;crosscheck archivelog all;
RMAN&gt;delete noprompt expired archivelog all; , you can also include the delete input clause when you back them up, and they will be deleted after they have been backed up (it is up to you). You can try and run the command you have shown manually to see what will happen in RMAN (in other words, does it work or does it give an error).