RE: rman incremental merge

I don't understand why I would want to backup the archived logs after I have the incremental.
I believe that with or without the archived logs I can not restore to a point in time prior to the last date I merged the last incremental.

My guess is that I want to keep the archived logs on disk until the incremental is complete and then delete the archived logs without backing them up, as the incremental replaces the need for them. Yes/no?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephens, Chris [mailto:chris_stephens_at_admworld.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:02 PM
> To: Steiner, Randy; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: RE: rman incremental merge
>
> What about the time between bringing the copy up to date as
> of the backup time and the current time? ...or if you want
> to restore to a point in time in the past and you don't have
> the archivelogs in the archive destination?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steiner, Randy [mailto:Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:39 PM
> To: Stephens, Chris; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: RE: rman incremental merge
>
> Using this scenario, does it pay to backup the archived logs?
> Can't you just figure out a way to delete them without
> backing them up?
>

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