Firefighter Log File Archiving - Leading Practice

Hi All,
I am wondering if there is any leading practice by SAP or other on how often to archive data from Firefighter Logs. How big do these get? I know it depends on how much FF IDs get used, but is this a weekly, monthly, yearly type activity?
Thanks so much,
Grace Rae

Hi,
SAP recommends to keep at least one year data in the system for firefighter logs. You can check SAP note 1041912.
Thanks
Sunny

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Our development database is running in archivelog mode, but we don't have backups scheduled and have no recovery catalog.
When the database was in running condition, disk got full, so some archivelogs were deleted manually.
After this they restarted the DB, and now DB is not coming up. Errors are as follows:
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1444383504 bytes
Fixed Size 731920 bytes
Variable Size 486539264 bytes
Database Buffers 956301312 bytes
Redo Buffers 811008 bytes
Database mounted.
ORA-01589: must use RESETLOGS or NORESETLOGS option for database open
SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
alter database open resetlogs
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01113: file 1 needs media recovery
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/export/home/oracle/dev/ADVFRW/ADVFRW.system'
SQL> recover datafile '/export/home/oracle/dev/ADVFRW/ADVFRW.system'
ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors
ORA-01610: recovery using the BACKUP CONTROLFILE option must be done
SQL> recover database using backup controlfile;
ORA-00279: change 215548705 generated at 09/02/2008 17:06:10 needed for thread
1
ORA-00289: suggestion :
/export/home/oracle/dev/ADVFRW/ADVFRW.archivelog1/LOG_ADVFRW_1107_1.ARC
ORA-00280: change 215548705 for thread 1 is in sequence #1107
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
/export/home/oracle/dev/ADVFRW/ADVFRW.archivelog1/LOG_ADVFRW_1107_1.ARC
ORA-00308: cannot open archived log
'/export/home/oracle/dev/ADVFRW/ADVFRW.archivelog1/LOG_ADVFRW_1107_1.ARC'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
CANCEL
Media recovery cancelled.
SQL>
1. How to recover the database and bring it online
Any help will be highly appreciated.
With Regards
Hemant Joshi
Edited by: hem_Kec on Sep 7, 2008 9:07 AM

Hi,
Archive log files are the copies of redolog files.As redo log files are circularly overwritten,oracle generates archive log file of the corresponding redo logfiles being overwritten.So if you have a backup that dates back to 10 am in the morning and if your database creashed at 3 pm,you cannot use the redo log files alone as they have incomplete information.To completely recover the database upto 3 pm,you need archive log files generated between 10 am to 3 pm. In your case since you are missing one archive log file,you cannot perform complete recovery and hence would suffer data loss.

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