You can back them up and compressed they will consume about 30 percent
of space according to my experience. You don't have to delete archive
logs after backup - Oracle will delete them if there is space pressure
in FRA. This can save you some time during recovery as you won't need
to restore them.
On 7/22/07, Michael Kline <mkline1_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> We have a new setup using ASM, RAC and Flashback Recovery Area.
>
>
>
> The archive logs go to the FRA as well. We do hot backups but are not
> deleting
> the archive logs. Since the backup sets go to FRA, I'm wondering what, if
> any,
> advantage there is to keeping the archive logs. I'm thinking that "backup
> archive logs delete input" may make a lot more sense because they would
> already
> be in the backup sets anyhow.
>
>
>
> We do daily full hot backups. It's 10.2.0.3 on AIX, and everything is pretty
> much in ASM.
>
>
>
> Comments?
>
>
>
> Michael Kline
>
> Principal Consultant
>
> Business to Business Solutions
>
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>
> Midlothian, VA 23112
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>
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>
>
>
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