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incremental backups using retention policy redundancy 1

PktAcesJan 19 2012 — edited Jan 20 2012
10.2.0.5
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;

using a backup policy of running a level 0 on sunday night and a level 1 every other night using above configs. I also have an archivelog backup job that runs every 30 minutes. the details of the scripts are below.

level_0.cmd

backup incremental level 0 database plus archivelog delete all input;
delete noprompt obsolete;

level_1.cmd

backup incremental level 1 database tag = 'level_1' plus archivelog delete all input;
delete noprompt obsolete;

archivelog.cmd

backup archivelog all delete input;

I have a couple questions about limitations with this policy.

On a Friday is it possible to restore to a point in time from the Monday before?

If the following change is made, is it still possible?

CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO WINDOW OF 2 DAYS;

what is the differences in what is kept in the two different policies? just the datafile pieces? archivelogs? controlfiles?

Thanks
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