Re: Delete Old Rman Backups

We do a similar scenario and delete the backup from the server with an rm command. However, this will not remove the backups from the recovery catalog. This does not hurt anything. You can clean up your recovery catalog using rman commands or sql if it gets too big.

HTH
Ruth
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Kahn <tkahn2000_at_hotmail.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:21 PM
Subject: Delete Old Rman Backups

> Hi all,
> Here is an outline of the backup strategy in our shop:
> Every night three seperate crons jobs will do the following :
>
> 1. Delete anything that is older than one day from the backup directory.
> 1. Scheduled RMAN Scripts kick off overnight to do hot backups to disk.
> 2. The generated backup files are dumped to tape by server backups
scheduled
> by Unix SAs.
>
> The part I am not certain of is, is this the standard way to delete old
> backups generated by RMAN?
>
> TIA
>
> Tim
>
>
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