Re: long term archivelog retention

how do you store your archivelog and backup information? Control_file_record_keep_time has a maximum of 365 days.

I don't know how long information about non-deleted archivelogs will be stored in a recovery catalog. You might have to restore old controlfile backups to get that far back in time.

(If you test this I'd be very interested in the results - got similar requests from customers.)

Regards
Ingrid

On 23.04.2013 00:21, Ls Cheng wrote:
> Hi
> I have a database that has a requirement of retaining archivelogs for 1
> year. The database must be able to recover to ay point in time in 1 year
> period.
>
> So I have thought of using keep until time option for archivelogs (new in
> 11g). The strategy will be daily database backup with be retained 31 days
> using normal recovery windows retention policy, monthly 12 months and anual
> backups 5 years using keep until time. Archivelogs will also use keep until
> time sysdate + 365.
>
> Anyone have used keep until time for archivelogs and know any gotchas? So
> far the gotcha I have found is that we cannot use DELETE ARCHIVELOG ALL
> BACKED UP N TIMES TO DISK.
>
> Thanks
>
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