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Delete obsolete backups [message #405197]

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:26

harshkumar
Messages: 34
Registered: February 2008
Location: Delhi

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Hi,

We took the rman backup on tape using 'ArcServe' Backup agent. Now we are not having tape library attached. We did not use catalog.

We now created the Catalog and taking the backup on Disk.

I want to remove the old backups (tapes) from rman repository but if i run the command:

RMAN> allocate channel for maintenance device type sbt;
RMAN> delete obsolete;

It then hanged and shows the wait class 'Administrative'.

Please help me to remove the previous tape backups from RMAN repository.

Thanks,
Harsh

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Re: Delete obsolete backups [message #405267 is a reply to message #405197]

Wed, 27 May 2009 04:41

ebrian
Messages: 2794
Registered: April 2006

Senior Member

You could try the following:

RMAN> allocate channel for maintenance device type sbt
        parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=oracle.disksbt, ENV=(BACKUP_DIR=/tmp)';
RMAN> delete obsolete;

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