Re: How to keep backups for 6 months

From: IANAL_VISTA <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:11:52 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns9731C3724BACCSunnySD@70.168.83.30>

"San" <sanjaya.balasuriya_at_gmail.com> wrote in news:1135046506.632430.59700_at_g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm implementing a backup plan for my Oracle databases with RMAN.
>
> I'd like to what's best way to keep backups for 6 months.
>
> What I'm doing currently is;
>
> 1.
> Backup archived logs on the productions database daily.
>
> 2.
> Backup database daily on the standby database.
>
>
> My problem is how to maintain backups for 6 months.
>
> Is setting "recovery windows" to 180 correct ?
>
> Default "recovery window" is 1 day. Does it mean all my backups older
> than 1 day are useless. Or they can be still used to restore database ?
>
> -Sanjaya
>
>

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