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How To Change Backup Retention AND Delete Obsolete Backup On RMAN

 

First, we connect to the node where the database is located with ssh.

After loading the database’s profile, we connect to RMAN with the command below.

 

You can read the following articles to load profiles and connect to RMAN.

How To Connect To Oracle With sqlplus“,

How To Create .profile File To Connect The Oracle

 

The following command displays all rman configurations.

 

We change the backup retention with the following command.

 

Then, with the following command, we do the necessary checks to delete metadata information in the control file that has metadata information but has not a backup file in RMAN.

 

The following command also deletes metadata information detected by crosscheck from the control file.

 

Then we delete all backups that can be deleted with the following command.

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