RE: rman not purging backups properly
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:55:28 -0500
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Hi List,
Wish you all a very happy and promising new year ahead. My apologies to Steve for hijacking his thread. I just have a quick question. I noticed on RMAN> list backup summary; under the level (LV) column, there are different values 0, 1, A and F. As I understand, 0 an 1 are RMAN backup levels 0 and 1 respectively. what does A and F stand for? Is A for Archived log? Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Sundar
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: January 4, 2010 2:05 AM
To: stbaldwin_at_multiservice.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: rman not purging backups properly
You don't say what the older backups are, I'm guessing a mixture of full and incremental.
a recovery window of 8 days doesn't mean "keep the last 8 days backups" it means "keep the files necessary to recover to 8 days ago or any more recent point" If you have a full and incremental strategy with say full only on the weekend you may have as many as 15 days worth of backups stored to meet that requirement - the full from 15 days ago is needed to recover to 8 days ago.
Niall
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Steve Baldwin <stbaldwin_at_multiservice.com<mailto:stbaldwin_at_multiservice.com>> wrote:
Can someone please tell me what I'm missing here ...
[oracle_at_msdbc11 backup-scripts]$ rman target=/
Recovery Manager: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Sun Jan 3 14:08:41 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: RAC11D (DBID=1614933222)
RMAN> list backup summary;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
List of Backups
Key TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag
------- -- -- - ----------- --------------- ------- ------- ---------- ---
3264 B 0 A DISK 21-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091221T021704
3272 B 1 A DISK 22-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091222T001105
3280 B 1 A DISK 23-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091223T003814
3288 B 1 A DISK 24-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091224T002728
3295 B 1 A DISK 25-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091225T002459
3302 B 1 A DISK 25-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091225T232731
3303 B A A DISK 25-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091225T233803
3304 B F A DISK 25-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091225T233807
3305 B A A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091227T054546
3306 B A A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091227T054546
3307 B A A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091227T054546
3308 B A A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091227T054546
3309 B 1 A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091227T054927
3310 B A A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091227T055838
3311 B F A DISK 27-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091227T055839
3312 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T021305
3313 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T021305
3314 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T021305
3315 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T021305
3316 B 0 A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T021634
3317 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T025240
3318 B F A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091228T025247
3319 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T232639
3320 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T232639
3321 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T232639
3322 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T232639
3323 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T232639
3324 B 1 A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T233452
3325 B A A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 YES TAG20091228T234517
3326 B F A DISK 28-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091228T234526
:
RMAN> delete expired backup;
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=16245 instance=rac11d1 device type=DISK
RMAN> delete obsolete;
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to recovery window of 8 days
using channel ORA_DISK_1
no obsolete backups found
RMAN> Based on the setting of a recovery window of 8 days, why haven't the backups dated 25-DEC-09 and older been seen as obsolete and deleted?
I've since changed my purging setting to REDUNDANCY 1 and it purged everything I expected. Any ideas why the previous setting didn't work?
Thanks,
Steve
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