Retention Policy

Oracle RMAN Delete Obsolete - Remove Unneeded Backups Purpose A backup disk fills up slowly. Every night adds another set of backup files, and nobody removes the old ones. One morning the nightly backup fails because there is no space left. RMAN already knows which backups are no longer needed, but it does not remove …

Oracle RMAN Report Obsolete Redundancy Command Guide Purpose The report obsolete redundancy = 2 command in Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) identifies database backups that are no longer necessary for recovery operations based on a redundancy-based retention policy. This command helps database administrators determine …

Oracle RMAN Report Obsolete Command The REPORT OBSOLETE command in Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) helps database administrators identify backup files that are no longer required for recovery operations. This command compares existing backups against your configured retention policy and lists the backups that the policy …