Oracle 11g flash recovery keeps growing

Question

Oracle 11g flash recovery (E:\ partition in a Windows 2003 server) keeps growing. It already used 200GB of disk space and only 46GB of disk space is left in that partition. Can we tell how often Oracle 11g delete the old backups?
Thanks.
Andy

Answer 1

andychow wrote:
SQL> set linesize 1000
SQL> select substr(name,1,30) name,
2         space_limit,
3         space_used,
4         space_reclaimable,
5         number_of_files
6  from V$RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
7  ;
NAME                           SPACE_LIMIT SPACE_USED SPACE_RECLAIMABLE NUMBER_OF_FILES
E:\flash_recovery_area_11       1.0486E+11 1.6752E+10                 0               5
SQL> select *
2  from V$FLASH_RECOVERY_AREA_USAGE
3  ;
FILE_TYPE            PERCENT_SPACE_USED PERCENT_SPACE_RECLAIMABLE NUMBER_OF_FILES
CONTROL FILE                          0                         0               0
REDO LOG                              0                         0               0
ARCHIVED LOG                        .09                         0               2
BACKUP PIECE                      15.88                         0               3
IMAGE COPY                            0                         0               0
FLASHBACK LOG                         0                         0               0
FOREIGN ARCHIVED LOG                  0                         0               0
7 rows selected.
SQL>
It shows only 5 files in E:\flash_recovery_area_11. Can you verify ?