On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Rich Jesse <rjoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Hey Brandon, > > Aside from RMAN performance, there's a lot of disk wasted on this. At the > controlfiles current size of 50MB each (PROD is only 4MB) and with a > maximum > of ~200 copies required for a minimum 1 day RMAN retention period with > autobackup, I'm needing 10GB in my FRA just for controlfile backups (which > don't appear to be compressed). At this point, I have no idea how big the > controlfile is going to get, which is a bit scary. > > No more than 20,000 blocks (likely 156mb) there's a hard limit. :( Do you actually *need* a controlfile autobackup every 15 minutes though? -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info