Re: Backup requesting archivelog

Chris,

Thank you for your response. Yes, were are doing a full backup plus archivelogs. I believe the crosscheck/delete is what I need to move forward and an explanation for the other DBA.

Sandy

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you doing a full backup plus archivelogs? The archivelog is recorded
> in the controlfile as having been generated but not backed up so it's
> complaining.
>
> I believe you need to do an RMAN crosscheck archivelog and it will verify
> the archivelogs are not available and mark them as expired. Then you can
> do an RMAN> delete expired archivelog and then run your full backup.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oracle 11.2
>> Linux OS
>>
>> We recently replaced the mount where our archivelogs were sitting and
>> some of the older logs were lost in the transition. I'm getting them
>> restored now. Unfortunately, a database backup had not been run since
>> March 20th, an oversight that I'm trying to fix.
>>
>> Question: If we're doing a full backup (we don't do incremental level 1
>> backups for this database), why would it fail because it couldn't find one
>> of the older archivelogs? I haven't found anything in my searches to
>> explain why this would occur. Another DBA on the team is asking me for an
>> explanation and I don't have the answers.
>>
>> Thank you for your input.
>>
>> --
>> Sandy B.
>>
>>
>

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Sandy B.

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