How to find archivelog gaps in the backups I manage Oracle databases that are backed up using RMAN. How can I find gaps in the backed-up archivelogs?

I.e., I want to detect when something like this happens:


Take full backup with archivelogs
Back up morning archivelogs and delete input
Back up evening archivelogs and delete input
Someone permanently deletes the backupsets containing the morning archivelogs
Crosscheck so RMAN knows some backupsets have gone missing


Short of doing or simulating a full restore and recovery, how can I detect that there is a gap? How can I see that backupsets are missing that would be needed for full recovery?
I think that REPORT is the appropriate command, but at the moment I cannot test it. Before you execute the report command you should execute a CROSSCHECK command so that rman does actually know which backups exists and which are missing.

If you want to find out if there are archive log backups missing then 

REPORT NEED BACKUP DATABASE;


should do the job. The whole database must be backed up because of the missing archive logs the database cannot be restored to the current point in time. So the command will report all data files.

If backup pieces were destroyed that contain datafiles of the morning full backup then 

REPORT NEED BACKUP DAYS 1 DATABASE;


So this command will report both problems.

The report-command is documented in the Backup and Recovery Reference and in the Backup and Recovery User's Guide.

So all in all do

CROSSCHEK BACKUP;
REPORT NEED BACKUP DAYS 1 DATABASE;