Re: Deleting Archive logs

From: Michael Puente <mcpuente_at_cis.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:29:34 +0800
Message-ID: <387A877E.94E2AD00@cis.com.ph>

Assuming that when recovering, you always use the latest online backup then you can discard archived redo logs generated before starting last nights online backup.

Merlin Team wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can somebody just clarify when it is safe to delete old archive logfiles.
> Currently our backup sequence consists of
>
> Nightly - a hot backup where we copy the datafiles and current archivelogs
> to tape
> Weekly - a cold backup, close down the database and copy all the datafiles
> to tape
>
> If we need to recover the database am I safe in assuming that when we do a
> cold backup Oracle will not need any of the previous archivelogs in the
> event of a recovery.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
> merlin_team_at_hotmail.com
Received on Mon Jan 10 2000 - 19:29:34 CST