Re:

My guess is that script was written for an older version of rman. Your version of Oracle already comes with a script to do just what that script attempts to do anyway: $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/rman1.sh

it uses the 'report obsolete' command to provide the list of files to delete, which seems like a better idea to me than just listing backupsets for a specified time frame. You can always edit rman1.sh to keep some obsolete backups, eg. 'report obsolete redundancy 4'

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I just found a Korn shell script on-line to Delete RMAN backupsets older
than a specified number of days.  It has syntax in it that RMAN doesn't
like, and I can't find a reference to what the script is trying to do
anywhere.

OS: HPUX 11i
Production DB: Oracle 8.1.7.4
Recovery Catalog DB: Oracle 8.1.7.4

The syntax in the script is this:


(rman catalog rman/password_at_RCAT target sys/password_at_HOST  <<- EOF

      list backupset of database
              from time 'SYSDATE-1000' until time 'SYSDATE-$DAYSTOKEEP';
      exit;
      EOF ) | grep RMAN-06233 | while read filler key filler filler date
rest
do
      echo "# Delete backupset $key dated $date..." >>$CMDFILE
      echo "CHANGE BACKUPSET $key DELETE;"  >>$CMDFILE
done

The syntax I am confused about is the "list ..... from time ....until
time"
part.  I cannot find reference to that syntax anywhere.  Is there actually
a way to make this work?

When I run the script, it gets to this point and gives me the following
error messages:
RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands
RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "from": expecting one of: "archivelog,
completed, controlfile, database, datafile, device, like, recoverable, ;,
skip, tablespace, tag"
RMAN-01007: at line 2 column 1 file: standard input

Thanks in Advance!


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Oracle Certified Professional DBA
Wm. Rainey Harper College
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