Re: rman copy archive logs

Why not just use the BACKUP ARCHIVELOG command? That's what it is there for. You don't need to COPY them, just back them up. RMAN will use these backup of the archived redo logs for rolling forward.

HTH,
Brian

Terry Dykstra wrote:
>
> rman backup .... allows you to copy all your archivelogs.
> rman copy .... seems to support only hardcoded archivelog names. No
> wildcards, all or something like that. Unless I'm missing something in the
> documentation.
>
> --
> Terry Dykstra
> Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
> "George Barbour" <gbarbour_at_csc.com> wrote in message
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> > "Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> > news:0tnqsughp24kq6753p8be5sncg7gp9eirb_at_4ax.com...
> > > On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:04:22 GMT, "Terry Dykstra"
> > > <dont_reply_tddykstra_at_forestoil.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Can I use the RMAN COPY command to copy all my archive log files? All
> > > >examples I've found seem to use BACKUP. Can I only copy hardcoded
> > > >archivelog files?
> > > >Neither 817 or 9.2 seem to have this option.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a76990/rman
> > sy14.htm#19675
> > >
> > > You can not copy them to tape though, and you need to copy them one by
> > > one
> > > so evidently you would need v$archived_log to generate an RMAN script.
> > >
> > > Hth
> > >
> > >
> > > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
> > >
> > I use RMAN to copy my archive log files to tape? Whats the problem?
> >
> > George Barbour.
> >
> >
Received on Wed Nov 13 2002 - 12:36:20 CST