RE: RMAN - archive log files

Thanks, Ruth. Because we aren't yet ready to bet the farm on RMAN, we are keeping them in both locations. And since we only do a weekly cold backup, we keep a week's worth on disk. I'm thinking that for the time being we can forgo RMAN backing up the archive logs. Thanks. Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

If you want to be able to restore your database to a point in time or do a complete recovery you database you must have all of the archive logs you need. If you don't include them in a backup you must keep them in the archivelog destination,

Ruth
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> Must I have RMAN back up the archive log files?
> We are at the delicate position of getting acquainted with RMAN. We
> are using it but not yet ready to completely trust it, or rather trust
that
> our setup is entirely correct (we production DBAs tend to be a
conservative
> lot). We are just writing RMAN files to disk, no media manager.
> Needless to say, we are getting the disadvantages of both methods.
> In addition to the disk space taken up by the archive log files, I also
have
> the disk space taken up by the RMAN archive log files, so I have used
twice
> the amount of disk.
> If I didn't have RMAN store the archive log files, would it still be
> able to perform a recovery? Would it just grab the existing log files off
> disk? I'm thinking it must since it has to use some archive log files that
> were created since RMAN last ran. Appreciate your insights.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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