Re: Subject: RE: Purge RMAN backups from old repository

Manmohan

    Wow! You really, really want to remove those old backups! Is there a strong reason or do you just like to clean things up?

    You don't say if you were using RMAN with a catalog or in controlfile mode. I have had serious problems attempting to use a different SID than RMAN is aware of. You are right that the DBID is also critical.

    Good luck with this.

Dennis Williams

On 6/22/05, Manmohan Jalsingh <mjalsing_at_lycos.com> wrote:
> Thanks Vitalis and Tom for your responses.
>
> I need to drop the old RMAN backups from 9i repostory as well as from tsm media.
> I can use the old control file to mount the 9i instance and then delete the old
> backups. As, there is a 10g database running with same SID, Oracle may not allow
> me to start old 9i instance with same SID on same server.
> I will try using a different sid to mount the controlfile and then delete the
> old backups. The dbid and dbname will still be same so RMAN should be
> able to find the old backups.

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