Re: rman question

You should backup all of the archivelogs if you are going to delete them and maybe even if you are not. The redo logs contain data which is already in the database when the backup is made so you don't need to back them up.

 In my scripts I always to an 'archive log current' and backup all of my archive logs and delete them. We don't have enough room to keep them. This way the archive logs that I might need to restore and recovery from a particular backup are with that backup when I put it on tape.

HTH,
Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:46 PM

> Ruth,
>
> Cold bacpup should backup online redo files. Level 0 did'nt include
> online redo files. If I do alter system archivelog current, should I
> backup archive files as well? We are in archive mode.
>
> Joan
>
> Ruth Gramolini wrote:
> >
> > You can so a cold backup with rman, the database will be in mount state
to
> > do it. Just to a shutdown, startup mount and run a full of level 0
backup.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ruth
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> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:35 PM
> >
> > > Hi Dear List,
> > >
> > > We are using unix shell script to cold backup our production right now
> > > and ftp the backupset to the test machine refresh the testing instance
> > > once a week.
> > > My question is if I decide to use rman instead shell script. How it
> > > works with cold backup? Can I using rman catalog to restore a
production
> > > database to test database? Can I restore obsolete backups to another
> > > machine using rman? Sometimes we have to restore old backups on the
test
> > > machine to debug a production problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > Joan
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