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Old backups not getting deleted [message #665990] Fri, 06 October 2017 00:26 Go to previous message
SSharma7985
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Registered: January 2011
Location: India
Junior Member
HI Experts,

We take RMAN backups daily night at around 10 PM EST as per below mentioned script .

NLS_DATE_FORMAT='dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss';export NLS_DATE_FORMAT
ORACLE_SID=cfp106;export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/db_1;export ORACLE_HOME
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH;export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
rman target / log=/util/dba/cfp106/reports/cfp106_rman_hot_backup_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.log <<EOF
set echo on;
RUN {
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 60 DAYS;
configure controlfile autobackup on;
configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/cfp106_controlfile_backup_%F';
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk3 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk4 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk5 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk6 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk7 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk8 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/rman_full_online_backup_%d_set%s_piece%p_copy%c_%T_%U';
sql 'alter system switch logfile';
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET DATABASE;
sql 'ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT';
crosscheck archivelog all;
delete noprompt expired archivelog all;
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET ARCHIVELOG ALL FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/cfp106_archivelogs_%d_%u_%s_%T';
delete noprompt archivelog all backed up 2 times to disk;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP;
DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE DEVICE TYPE TAPE;
DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE RECOVERY WINDOW OF 10 DAYS DEVICE TYPE DISK;
BACKUP CURRENT CONTROLFILE FORMAT '/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106/cfp106_rman_hot_backup_cntrl_%s_%p_%t';
RELEASE CHANNEL disk1;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk2;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk3;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk4;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk5;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk6;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk7;
RELEASE CHANNEL disk8;
}
exit
EOF



In morning at around 04 AM EST , we push the backups to tape using below mentioned script .

NLS_DATE_FORMAT='dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss';export NLS_DATE_FORMAT
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/db_1;export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=cfp106;export ORACLE_SID
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH;export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
rman target / log=/util/dba/cfp106/reports/cfp106_rman_backups_totape_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.log <<EOF
set echo on;
run {
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE sbt PARMS 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo_CFP106_ORA.opt)';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE sbt PARALLELISM 1;
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt BACKUPSET ALL NOT BACKED UP SINCE TIME 'SYSDATE-35/24';
}
.

Issue here is Inspite of running DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE RECOVERY WINDOW OF 10 DAYS DEVICE TYPE DISK , disk backup pieces are not getting removed . Rman just deletes the control files and does not remove the backup piece saying no obsolete backups found .

On disc i can see older backups .

jptrcolspora04{sasharma}: pwd
/cfp106/cfp106_bk/oradata/cfp106
jptrcolspora04{sasharma}: ls -lrt *20170919*
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 754056192 Sep 19 22:06 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tosesmr1_952_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 889228800 Sep 19 22:07 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tpsesmr1_953_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1155046400 Sep 19 22:07 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tmsesmr1_950_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 963630080 Sep 19 22:07 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tssesmr2_956_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1018653184 Sep 19 22:07 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tlsesmr1_949_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1059609600 Sep 19 22:08 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tnsesmr1_951_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1104746496 Sep 19 22:08 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_trsesmr1_955_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1193869824 Sep 19 22:08 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tqsesmr1_954_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1079053312 Sep 19 22:10 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_ttsesmvj_957_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 965541376 Sep 19 22:10 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tvsesn1p_959_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1056766976 Sep 19 22:10 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_u0sesn1q_960_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1160766464 Sep 19 22:10 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_tusesn10_958_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 935014400 Sep 19 22:10 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_u2sesn2b_962_20170919
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 1147851264 Sep 19 22:11 cfp106_archivelogs_CFP106_u1sesn1r_961_20170919

this is more than 2 weeks old .
I know i am missing something very basic .
Please assist .

 
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