Using Oracle Suggested Backup Strategy Cumulative Backups And Archive Logs Are Not Reported Obsoleted When Recover Window is Set (Doc ID 460941.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

The Oracle Suggested Backup strategy is being used:

RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE WITH TAG "<TAG_NAME>";
BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1
FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG "<TAG_NAME>"
DATABASE;

Retention Policy is set to recovery window of 7 days.
All incremental backups and Archivelogs since database creation are NOT being obsoleted:

RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to recovery window of 7 days
no obsolete backups found

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Cause

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