Archives Are Not Deleting After Backup : RMAN-08120 (Doc ID 3054743.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Exadata Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Primary and standby were sending data to the third standby.

Standby could not send to the third standby due to password file issue.

However since Primary was also shipping to the third standby it was in sync.

Below error is seen on standby database as it is not able to send logs to third standby.

RMAN-08120: WARNING: archived log not deleted, not yet applied by standby.

Cause

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