Re: rman confusion

EdStevens wrote:
> Oracle 9.2 STANDARD Edition on Solaris 5.9
>
> On Friday (Oct 27) I brought up a new database, quickly configured rman
> and took an incremental 0 backup. Today (Oct 30) I began putting
> together scripts to handle all of the backup requirements -- weekly
> inc. 0, daily inc. 1, crosschecking, etc. I'm sure what I'm seeing is
> 'as advertised', but I'm missing something here...
>
> Here is the configuration:
>
> RMAN> show all;
>
> RMAN configuration parameters are:
> CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 15 DAYS;
> CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
> CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO
> '/db01/flash_recovery_area/CARGOPD/backup/%F';
> CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1;
> CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
> CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
...
>
> So why is it wanting to delete the backup control files that are only 3
> days old, with a 15-day retention policy? Obviously, I'm not
> understanding something here.

Redundancy?
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96566/rcmconfg.htm#446251

jg

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