Re: Removing the Archived logs question

Tapan

Depends on whether you'll ever have the need to recover to before the cold backup. If you do, you'll need the archive files. If not, you don't.

Of course, this all begs the question of how you verify the cold backup has worked, since the only real way of checking this is to restore and see if the database restarts.

HTH. Pete

Tapan Trivedi wrote:

> Hi all .
> I have a general question about hot backups and the nice stuff.If I do a
> hot backup daily and a cold backup weekly do I need to keep the hot
> backups before the cold backups. I am trying to arrive at disk capacity
> requirements for the present systems.
> So lets say that my hot backups are daily at night. Every Saturday
> night I do a cold backup. Do I need to keep the archived logs before
> that Saturday night after the cold backup has been verified ? Also any
> tips on how to determine if the online redo logs are filled up totally
> before the switch occurs ??
>
> Tapan H Trivedi

Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 13:20:22 CDT