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Using RMAN for deleting archived redo logs

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Using RMAN for deleting archived redo logs

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- [Instructor] RMAN also provides us with the capability to manage the actual database archive video logs themselves, not just backups of the archive video logs. For example, we can instruct RMAN to delete archive video logs which have been successfully backed up to disk at least once. You can find this command included in your exercise file. Let's copy this command and paste it into our RMAN terminal. As you can see, with this command, I'm instructing RMAN to delete the archive logs, not the backups but the archive logs themselves, that have been backed up at least once to disk. Running this command at this point in time did not actually delete my archive video logs. As you see, RMAN alerted me that no backups of these archive video logs exist. That's because in our previous video, we deleted all of our archive video log backups. So, running this command is safe as archive video logs which have not been backed up yet successfully will not get deleted. So, let's run another backup of…

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