how do we make sure archive log is applied on the standby before deleting in primary?

http://www.orafaq.com/maillist/oracle-l/2006/11/01/0070.htm

Very interesting

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From: Remigiusz Sokolowski [mailto:remigiusz.sokolowski_at_nordea.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:16 AM To: Xu, Roger
Cc: fmhabash_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Group Subject: RE: RMAN backup all but delete n days old

On wto, 2009-02-17 at 13:18 -0700, Xu, Roger wrote:
> I have a similar question - hope someone can answer both :)
>
> Can we backup all offline redo logs and delete only the ones which
have
> been successfully transferred to the standby?
>
> TIA!
AFAIK that is done automatically (at least in 10.2.0.3). If one tries to delete with rman an archivelog which is not copied to standby it fails with
RMAN-08137: WARNING: archive log not deleted as it is still needed

regards
Remigiusz

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