Volker Hetzer wrote:
> Glen schrieb:
>
>> DB is 9.2.0.7
>>
>> I am having a couple of RMAN issues on one database, the most pressing
>> being it is not marking or deleting old backups.
>>
>> I've set up 2 RMAN jobs in OEM, a weekly job to run on sunday night to
>> do an incremental level 0 backup, and a job to run every other day of
>> the week to do an incremental level 1. Archive logs are deleted
>> after they have been backed up twice and older than 7 days. Retention
>> policy was set to a recovery window of 3 days.
>>
>> Today I noticed a couple of things, the first being the jobs are not
>> showing up in the history tab in OEM, checking the server itself I see
>> that they have been running as backups are in the backup directory
>> specified, they are just not being recorded in OEM.
>>
>> The second thing I noticed is that old backups are not being deleted.
>> So I logged into RMAN on the server itself, run a crosscheck database
>> command, do a list of backups, and it shows backups back to the date
>> Nov 5th (today is the 14th) There are RMAN backups in the directory
>> going back to Oct 22. When I run a "delete obsolete" or "delete
>> obsolete recovery window of 7 days;" it returns a message that there
>> are no obsolete backups. I've changed the retention setting to 2 or 3
>> days, and still getting the same message when trying to delete the old
>> backups.
>>
>> I suppose I could just use the OS to delete the old backups, but I
>> want to find out why RMAN is not doing what(I think) is it being told
>> to do.
>
> One beginners mistake is to have not enough space in the control file.
> Does the parameter "control_file_record_keep_time" ring a bell?
>
> Lots of Greetings!
> Volker
ah! cfrkt is set at 7, just reading up on it a bit now, although the
doc's are a tad confusing so far... do I increase the cfrkt to have a
larger recovery window?
I'm thinking at the default cfrkt of 7 I should still be able to issue a
"delete obsolete recovery window of 3 days", correct? (I can't)
Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 10:35:01 CST
