V70164 Online Backup - Archive Logs

About the last step I do in my V6 online (hot) backup is to "alter system switch logfile". This ensures that I've got all redo log activity in the archive logs before I back them off to tape. Under V6, the archive logs were always the same size, regardless of whether Oracle archived the redo logs because they were full, or I archived them with my switch logfile command.

I am bringing up V7 databases, and preparing my hotbackup procedures, and I notice that log files which were archived because of an "alter system switch log file" command are different sizes depending on how much database activity had happened since last log file switch. It would appear that Oracle is now able to write out different sized archive log files, and use the SCN during recovery ? Can anyone confirm whether this is a bug, feature, or pilot error.

 _at_8-) Received on Fri Jul 01 1994 - 21:00:02 CEST