http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/setup004.htm CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 7 DAYS; CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT TAPE TO 3; Since you do full backup every day and no incremental, then this might be possible as well. CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 7; Keep in mind that I have not used RMAN since 9i, but still trying to keep up with it. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Subodh Deshpande [deshpande.subodh@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:29 AM To: oracle-l Subject: RMAN backup retention policy - doubt Hi all, I want to know..in our environment we have backup retention policy set in terms of days and also we do not take more than one copy of backup..and I think this is what is generally followed. I could not exlain to my friend and so I wanted to know assumtion - all are complete backup not incremental.. a) is there any relation between number of channels and backup policy based on number of copies, only I know that channels can be configured for different devices.. so lets say if I have three 3 sbt devices and configured 7 channels (3 for sbt backup, 3 maintenace backup and 1 for disk backup) and if suppose I want to change my existing backup policy from one set to three sets of backup..what I should do so that all these three sbt devices can be used simultaneiously and average backup time will be less b) if suppose I want to alter my backup retention policy from number of days (5) to number of days (7) plus number of copies(from1 to 3) and above is the configuration..what changes I should do. c) Following is sample environment setup Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. connected to target database: TESTIMCGS (DBID=1702101194) connected to recovery catalog database RMAN> show all; RMAN configuration parameters are: CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1; # default CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default RMAN configuration has no stored or default parameters RMAN configuration has no stored or default parameters CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/usr/oracle/product/9.2/dbs/snapcf_TESTIMCGSSRN.f'; # default Thanks! Subodh ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ============================== -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l