Empty directories after DELETE OBSOLETE under flash_recovery_area
ennisbMar 13 2006 — edited Mar 16 2006I have has RMAN running on 10.2 for about a week now. I have a very simple backup in place with a redundancy policy of 1. I also have a cleanup job that runs once per day. RMAN is cycling out the files as expected. However, it is leaving empty directories for old controlfile and archivelog backups. Am I supposed to clean these myself or am I doing something wrong?
Here is an ls at the top of my flash_recovery_area:
lescxa0b@DWPRD> ls -l
total 48
drwxr-x--- 9 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 00:25 archivelog/
drwxr-x--- 9 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 00:25 autobackup/
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 96 Mar 12 00:26 backupset/
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 03:01 datafile/
And one level down:
lescxa0b@DWPRD> ls -l *
archivelog:
total 112
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 8 00:25 2006_03_07/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 9 00:25 2006_03_08/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 10 00:25 2006_03_09/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 11 00:25 2006_03_10/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 12 00:25 2006_03_11/-- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 00:25 2006_03_12/-- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 21:26 2006_03_13/ -- ok, here's the current day
autobackup:
total 112
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 8 03:01 2006_03_07/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 9 03:01 2006_03_08/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 10 03:01 2006_03_09/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 11 03:01 2006_03_10/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 12 03:01 2006_03_11/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 03:01 2006_03_12/ -- Still here?
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle dba 8192 Mar 13 21:26 2006_03_13/ -- ok, current day
backupset:
total 0
datafile:
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