RE: RMAN: backup archivelog until time 'sysdate-2' delete input

  • From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: roger_xu@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:52:25 -0500

Roger - I don't see where you mentioned your Oracle version. RMAN has been
notorious for being picky about the date format. I've generally heard of
this in terms of recovery times and with Oracle 8i. Since I back up RMAN to
disk, I don't use RMAN to backup the archive logs, so I haven't encountered
this specific problem. Looking at Freeman's great Oracle9i Backup and
Recovery, he uses the syntax:
        'backup archivelog from time 'sysdate - 1';

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Roger Xu
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 4:55 PM
To: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)
Subject: RMAN: backup archivelog until time 'sysdate-2' delete input

Hi list,
 
It was "Mon Oct 11 16:12:07 CDT 2004" and I ran the following
 
RMAN> run {
2>      backup
3>       format '/oback/obckp/redo-logs/DV2_%s_%p.logs'
4>       archivelog until time 'sysdate-2' delete input;
5>     }
 
Since I specified "sysdate-2", I expected it only archive/delete up to "Oct
09 16:12:06".
Was I right? But the truth is it archived/deleted redo file "1_1440.dbf",
which was created 
between "Mon Oct 11 00:12:40 2004" and "Mon Oct 11 00:42:39 2004". WHY?
 
My last three redo files was:
.. .. ..
Sat Oct  9 06:23:22 2004
.. .. ..
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1:
'/oracle/DV2/saparch/DV2arch/1_1439.dbf'
Sat Oct  9 06:23:34 2004
.. .. ..
Mon Oct 11 00:12:40 2004
.. .. ..
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1:
'/oracle/DV2/saparch/DV2arch/1_1440.dbf'
.. .. ..
Mon Oct 11 00:42:39 2004
.. .. ..
Mon Oct 11 15:39:37 2004
.. .. ..
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1:
'/oracle/DV2/saparch/DV2arch/1_1441.dbf'
Roger Xu 
Database Administrator 
Dr Pepper Bottling Company of Texas 
(972)721-8337 
 

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