Deletion of archive log using RMAN Target in Oracle 10g

Hi All,
I recently have noticed that the archive logs have occupied 102 GBs out of the drive and I need to free up some space. When I tried to connect RMAN Catalog using
connect catalog user@dbI got error message as
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-06445: cannot connect to recovery catalog after NOCATALOG has been usedBut I was able to get through using
connect target user@dbMy Query is can I use
RMAN> delete noprompt expired archivelog all;as given in [how to delete archive log file |https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2321257&start=0&tstart=0]
Or shall I take any other approach to delete the obsolete archive logs?
Regards,
*009*

Hello;
I recently have noticed that the archive logs have occupied 102 GBs out of the drive and I need to free up some space. When I tried to connect RMAN Catalog using
connect catalog user@dbI got error message as
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-06445: cannot connect to recovery catalog after NOCATALOG has been usedBut I was able to get through using
connect target user@db
Are you trying to connect it through Grid control ? If connecting through a script, then please post its contents.
Make sure you are not connecting to the target database using "nocatalog".
rman target sys/<pwd_of_target>@<target_db> catalog <catalog_schema>/<catalog_schema_pwd>@<catalog_db>
My Query is can I use
RMAN> delete noprompt expired archivelog all;
as given in [how to delete archive log file |https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2321257&start=0&tstart=0]
Or shall I take any other approach to delete the obsolete archive logs?
Regards,
*009*Are these archives backed up ? The above command only updates the RMAN repository if in case the archives were delete manually at OS level.
I would recommend you to backup these archives and then delete them.
RMAN>backup archivelog all not backedup 1 times delete input;If these archives are already backed up and have not been deleted from the disk, then you can use the below command
RMAN>delete force noprompt archivelog all completed before 'SYSDATE-n';where "n" is the number of days behind the current date. Make sure to verify if these archives have been backed up before deleting.
Regards,
Shivananda

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Hi All,
How to delete archive log by RMAN and what is the difference between
delete all input & all delete input in RMAN backup.

plus archivelog all delete inputYou get an error on the syntax.
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like to clean them off with RMAN.
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Hi All,
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http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-bash-history-display-date-time/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/solaris-opensolaris-20/in-solaris-command-line-how-to-get-the-previous-commands-573814/
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