Hi Tony! Yes exactly, but it is the OP's need I guess: >- Keep daily full backups for 1 week >- Keep full backups taken on Sunday for 1 month >- Keep 1 backup from every month for 1 year >- Keep all archive logs for 30 days He does not want to be able to perform point-in-time recovery over the year, just to be able to restore and recover from those backups. Jerome On 10/28/05, NEW pop.tiscali.de <adolph.tony@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > If you only keep the logs generated during the backups, then up until what > time do you expect to recover to? There'll be a gap from Dec 04 til now? > Or? > > Tony > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vitalis Jerome" <vitalisman@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <t_adolph@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:02 PM > Subject: Re: RMAN Retention policies > > > > > is the monthly backup cold / off line? I guess so, if not you must keep > all > > > archived redos for that time, i.e. a year > > > > That's not true. You must keep the logs generated during the backups, > > not 1 year worth of logs. > > As I said, it seems that RMAN 9i does not enforce this need > > correctedly (by means of option KEEP LOGS). It keeps *all* subsequent > > logs. > > > > Jerome > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l