safe to delete 'old' archive logs?

Oracle 9.2.0.4
Linux AS

Hi,

I have my retention policy set to 5 days, they actualy end up on tape each night as well as disk, and every couple of weeks or so i issue a delete obsolete.

I have just noticed that i have old archive logs lying around that are outside of this retention window.

$ ls -l /u05/archive/xxxxx/
total 3280116
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 May 12 11:12 1_119.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 May 13 07:01 1_120.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 May 13 21:02 1_121.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 May 14 18:43 1_122.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 May 16 09:13 1_123.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104856576 May 17 09:05 1_124.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 18 15:12 1_12.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 19 12:00 1_13.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 20 07:44 1_14.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 20 18:16 1_15.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 21 17:04 1_16.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104856576 Feb 22 17:22 1_17.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 23 11:43 1_18.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104856576 Feb 23 22:54 1_19.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104856576 Feb 24 17:19 1_20.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 25 09:53 1_21.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 25 09:54 1_22.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 25 09:55 1_23.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104855040 Feb 25 09:57 1_24.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104850944 Feb 25 09:58 1_25.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 25 09:59 1_26.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 25 10:01 1_27.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 25 12:09 1_28.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 26 08:16 1_29.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Feb 26 21:34 1_30.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104854528 Mar 14 16:49 1_51.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Mar 15 10:06 1_52.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104853504 Mar 15 18:05 1_53.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Mar 16 12:52 1_54.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104853504 Mar 17 04:00 1_55.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Mar 17 20:45 1_56.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 104857088 Mar 18 17:44 1_57.dbf

Am i OK to just issue an rm to get rid of these or is there something more elegent?

thanks Received on Mon May 17 2004 - 04:48:56 CDT