Hi,
I may be missing something obvious here. I am taking RMAN backups using Veritas NetBackup, the NetBackup policy uses "inifinity" retention period, RMAN is configured to use a recovery windows fo 31 days (this is a NetBackup best practice for managing expiry). Backups run fine and after they're done, I see lots of reclaimable space in my FRA, but as soon as I run "crosscheck backup", every backup I have ever done is marked EXPIRED.
RMAN settings:
RMAN> show all;
starting full resync of recovery catalog
full resync complete
RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name BOPA are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 31 DAYS;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARALLELISM 3 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET;
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'BZIP2'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/dbs/snapcf_bopa2.f'; # default
Crosscheck:
RMAN> crosscheck backup;
[...]
crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'EXPIRED'
backup piece handle=al_2298_1_809254750 RECID=2269 STAMP=809254789
Crosschecked 19 objects
The backup with handle al_2298_1_809254750 was taken last night, for example, with the RMAN settings listed above.
Any ideas? My FRA has grown to 1.5TB, I have disabled automatic crosscheck for now -- but I will need to reenable it.
Oracle 11.1.0.7 SE, 2 node Linux RAC, NetBackup 7.5