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Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thomas, You are right it's new in 9i Ramon E. Estevez restevez@blh.com.do 809-535-8994 -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ian, I think retention policy is new in 9i. I purge my repository of backups that are older than 90 days (because our tape systems rotates and reuses tapes after that time) using the "change backuppiece 330783 delete; " command. I run a sql script againts the rman repository looking for pieces that satisfy this requirement. The sql looks like this: select 'change backuppiece bp.bp_key delete;' from rc_backup_piece bp,rc_database db where db.name = upper('ORACLE_SID') and bp.db_id = db.dbid and bp.start_time < sysdate-90 / This is in an 8i database. Hope this is what you were looking for. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How is this set on 8.1.7 and 8.1.6 databases RMAN> CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 8 DAYS; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "compatible" RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: RETENTION RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 11 file: standard input I looked at commands such as crosscheck backup of database completed before 'SYSDATE-7'; delete expired backup of database completed before 'SYSDATE-7'; But crosscheck only expires backups which are in the catalog, but not available on the backup media. Do I have to use the change command and designate each backup piece? Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ian@slac.stanford.edu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A. INET: ian@SLAC.Stanford.EDU Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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