Hi all,

Am running out of space for my RMAN backup to disk. At the moment, there is an RMAN script that does a full backup to disk of the database and the archived logs and the archived logs themselves are retained on disks for 7-days. The RMAN script does not delete the archived logs, there is another UNIX script that deletes the archived logs.

I do not want to change dramatically the way the backup is going at the moment, i.e., I do not want to change the RMAN script to do full backup of the database and the archived logs and then delete the archived logs after. WHY? No point, 'coz the location of the RMAN backup to disk is different from where the archived logs are retained on a 7-day period. Besides, I didn't write the script so don't want to "stir" it a lot as it may get upset ... :-)

Anyway, now, my question is, since I am retaining the archived logs on a 7-day basis, technically, I should be able to just do an RMAN full database backup and forget about doing the RMAN archived logs backups. My only worry is whether RMAN will complain that I have not done an archived log backup when doing a restore or whether it will just pick up the archived logs as where they are now at present.

It will be very much appreciated if I can hear from anyone who is currently doing the RMAN backup as how I want it to be ... Thanks in advance ...




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