RE: Question about RMAN Datafile + Archivelog Backups

Consider your retention policy and perhaps needing to recover prior to your 
last backup.
 


From: ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:56:28 -0600
Subject: Question about RMAN Datafile + Archivelog Backups





What are the risks of NOT including archivelogs as part of the RMAN routine 
backups?
 
I have been tasked with reducing our backup sizes and was asked if we had to 
include archivelogs in our backups.
 
I realized that I didn’t have a real good answer to this.  My gut says to 
backup everything, but I cannot think of an exceptional reason to include 
archivelogs in my backup sets.  When you have to restore you only need the 
archivelogs since the last backup, right? Or am I forgetting something 
important here?
 
 
Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205
Office: 615-517-3355
Cell: 615-354-4799
Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
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