Curious, wouldn't it be less of a kludge to simply put this in cron: * * * * * find /archive/log/destination -mmin +1 -exec rm {} \; ## add appropriate depth flags if desired Guess that depends on what definition you use for "kludge". =) You could also have rman handle your archive logs rather handily. On 4/5/07, jim.silverman@xxxxxxxxxxx <jim.silverman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We manage several non-production 10g databases that are currently shut down and backed up cold every weekend. We'd like to begin backing them up using rman, both to avoid these weekly shutdowns and to gain the ability to recover to a time within 24 hours of a failure. Our plan is to perform Level-0 incremental backups on the weekend, and Level-1s each night during the week; we can live with an incomplete recovery through the most recent Level-1 available. To enable this, we'll need to convert the databases to ARCHIVELOG mode. However, we don't want to have to deal with managing archivelog space, since we often generate a lot of redo that, per the recovery scenario described above, will never be applied. As a result, we'd like to set up our environment such that the archiver's output is not saved anywhere. We tried setting LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 to "LOCATION=/dev/null", and while Oracle didn't complain when we started the instance, the archiver wasn't very happy when it woke up. We've also considered creating a small filesystem to hold the log files and firing up a cron job to periodically clear it out, but we'd rather avoid building such a kludge that would accomplish nothing useful while adding another item to our list of maintenance tasks. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. ===================================== Jim Silverman Senior Systems Database Administrator Solucient, LLC - A Thomson Company Telephone: 734-669-7641 FAX: 734-930-7611 E-Mail: jim.silverman@xxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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