backup UNDO Tablespace (dba_undo_extents)

  • From: Roger Xu <wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:20:58 -0600

Good morning,

Background: Windows 2003 / Oracle 10g with auto undo (8K block size)

We have only one datafile (20 GB) in the undo tablespace.
When I ran RMAN backup of this datafile, it created a 20GB backupset file.

I query dba_undo_extents and it shows less than 80 MB used.

SQL> select sum(blocks) from dba_undo_extents;
SUM(BLOCKS)
-----------
9824

Any explanation? How do I keep the backup of undo small?

Thanks,
Roger Xu

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