You can back them up and compressed they will consume about 30 percent of space according to my experience. You don't have to delete archive logs after backup - Oracle will delete them if there is space pressure in FRA. This can save you some time during recovery as you won't need to restore them. On 7/22/07, Michael Kline <mkline1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have a new setup using ASM, RAC and Flashback Recovery Area. The archive logs go to the FRA as well. We do hot backups but are not deleting the archive logs. Since the backup sets go to FRA, I'm wondering what, if any, advantage there is to keeping the archive logs. I'm thinking that "backup archive logs delete input" may make a lot more sense because they would already be in the backup sets anyhow. We do daily full hot backups. It's 10.2.0.3 on AIX, and everything is pretty much in ASM. Comments? Michael Kline Principal Consultant Business to Business Solutions 13308 Thornridge Ct Midlothian, VA 23112 O: 804.744.1545 Fax: 804.763.0114
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