RE: RMAN "delete obsolete" behavior

From: Freeman Robert - IL <FREEMANR_at_tusc.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 14:37:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00591C9D.20030506143734@fatcity.com>

This is not the expected behavor. I won't be able to play with this tonight, but I will tomorrow and we will see if I can replicate the behavor you are seeing.

Robert

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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 5/6/2003 4:51 PM

Paul - Which Oracle version? Makes a big difference on RMAN. Freeman's book
says this command doesn't exist in 8i, so you must be on 9i.

According to the manual,  

DELETE OBSOLETE - Deletes those files that are no longer needed for recovery.

Never used it myself. Just browsing Freeman again, have you configured a retention policy?
Sorry I'm not being much help on this one. Maybe someone else will.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 60%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:52 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Given:

configure default device type to disk;
configure device type disk parallelism 1; configure datafile backup copies for device type disk to 2; configure archivelog backup copies for device type disk to 2; configure channel 1 device type disk format 'f:\backup\t02a_%U','g:\backup\t02a_%U'; configure controlfile autobackup on;
configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to 'f:\backup\controlfile\%F';
configure retention policy to recovery window of 7 days;

And a script:

backup database ;
backup archivelog all delete all input;
delete obsolete;

The "delete obsolete" deletes the automatic controlfile/spfile backup that was just created, leaving me with none. Is this correct behavior?  How can I prevent it?

TIA, Paul Baumgartel

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