Do we need archivelog is we are using rman?

Hi,
I am confused about rnan and archivelog. If we have our database registered with rman with a recovery catalog database, then surely we do not need to have archivelog on, do we?
Thanks.

A quick high-level overview:
When you change some piece of information in a table (i.e. you change the salary of an employee from 100 to 200), that change is written to the redo logs.
The redo logs are then archived by the archiver process. At that point, they are known as archive [redo] logs. These logs are necessary in order to recover a
database to a particular point in time.
When you back up your database (whether you use RMAN or something else), the archive redo logs need to be backed up.
When RMAN does your database backup, it needs to record things like which files were backed up at what point in time and the name of the corresponding backup piece. It can either do that by writing that information to the control file or, preferrably, by writing that information to the recovery catalog.
The recovery catalog, therefore, has no idea that the salary of an employee changed from 100 to 200 at a particular SCN. Instead, it knows that the archived redo log X was backed up at time Y into backup piece Z. If you needed to recover that change in the future, RMAN would read backup piece Z, extract redo log X, and apply the log to the database. The archived redo log would store the information that the salary changed from 100 to 200.
Justin

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