Deleting Archive logs

From: Merlin Team <merlin.team_at_virgin.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:32:32 -0000
Message-ID: <85cg3b$87u$1@nclient15-gui.server.virgin.net>

Hi,

Can somebody just clarify when it is safe to delete old archive logfiles. Currently our backup sequence consists of

Nightly - a hot backup where we copy the datafiles and current archivelogs to tape
Weekly - a cold backup, close down the database and copy all the datafiles to tape

If we need to recover the database am I safe in assuming that when we do a cold backup Oracle will not need any of the previous archivelogs in the event of a recovery.

Thanks

Paul
merlin_team_at_hotmail.com Received on Mon Jan 10 2000 - 05:32:32 CST