Hello
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I did look at that. The problem is that "plus archivelog" in my
environment will give me a lot more logs than I need and I want to keep the
backup set as small as possible.
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IMHO, you should never do this thing manually if you use RMAN, but rather
let RMAN decide what it needs, and delete the other archivelogs with
delete obsolete clause.
It will depend on your retention clause.
For exemple, if you set redundancy=1 all the archivelogs that are not
needed for the recovery of your last
full backup can be deleted anyway with delete obsolete command.
Another thing, when you are doing backup database plus archivelogs at least
2 backupsets are produced , one for the datafile and the other for the
archivelogs, so it won't make your database backupset bigger, it will just
produce another (archivelog) backupset, that you can delete if it is
outside your retention policy
HTH
Dragutin
