Hi all.
I will soon be administering a few Oracle databases (11g Rel2). Currently these DBs area in archive log mode with a rman backup policy in place.
I don't like this policy and want to use my own, based on incremental updadateable backups, so, this is the plan i have in mind.
1) Disable archive mode.
2) Do a clean shutdown and take a cold backup.
3) Since after disabling archive, ALL RMAN backups will be unusable, i want to delete them (including archive logs and backup sets).
4) After proper deletion, configure some RMAN persitent parameters, like retention policy, controlfile autobackup and optimization on.
5) Enable archiving
6) Configure new backup policy based on incremental updateable backups with duplex location for archive logs.
Help is requested on best way to clean all backups (3).
I can manually delete backups and do a crosscheck, but according to Oracle Documentation "Delete Backup" will Delete all backups for this database recorded in the RMAN repository.
So, which is the best easiest and quickest way? Will delete backup include archive logs?
Thanks in advance. Luis!!!