RMAN Retention Policy

From: MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:04:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DA338.20031217140426@fatcity.com>

How is this set on 8.1.7 and 8.1.6 databases

RMAN> CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 8 DAYS;

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands
RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "compatible"

RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: RETENTION RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 11 file: standard input

I looked at commands such as

crosscheck backup of database completed before 'SYSDATE-7'; delete expired backup of database completed before 'SYSDATE-7';

But crosscheck only expires backups which are in the catalog, but not available on the backup media.

Do I have to use the change command and designate each backup piece?

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
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