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["Stephens, Chris" <chris_stephens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hello,
 
10.2.0.2  
Redhat 4 
archivelog mode
 
i am creating a backup script to do the following:
 
backup database to recovery area
backup recovery area to disk
if backup to disk succeeds, remove previous days backupset and
archivelogs older than 7 days.
 
we do not have licenses to the mml for veritas (the tape system we use)
so we have to manage the backup to tape ourselves.
 
therefore, once i backup the files to disk, i need to manually delete
them and let rman know that those files are no longer on disk so it
doesn't think the recovery area is full.  the commands that i thought
would notify oracle of the newly freed space in the recovery area are
'crosscheck backup' and 'crosscheck archivelog all'.  however, after
running those commands, 
 
select round((space_limit - space_used)/1024/1024/1024) as gb from
v$recovery_file_dest;
 
...does not change at all.
 
anybody know what i need to do?  
 
thanks!
chris
 

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