Unable to delete archive logs from primary

Question

Dear DBAs,
I made the necessary configuration in RMAN at both site (primary and physical standby) as below:
on primary:
configure archivelog deletion policy to applied on standby;
alter system set "_log_deletion_policy"=ALL scope=spfile;
log_archive_dest_10=LOCATION=USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST VALID_FOR=(ALL_LOGFILES,ALL_ROLES) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=ora10cs1
log_archive-dest_1=service="(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)
(HOST=LBLX-ORA10-SCS1)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=ora10scs1_XPT)(INSTANCE_NAME=ora10cs1)(SERVER=dedicated)))",
ARCH SYNC NOAFFIRM delay=0 OPTIONAL max_failure=0 max_connections=1 reopen=300 db_unique_name="ora10scs1" register net_timeout=180 valid_for=
(online_logfile,primary_role)
at standby:
configure archivelog deletion policy to none;
By the way i'm using Oracle 10gR2 patch4 on RHEL 5
and till now the database won't delete the archivelogs automaticaly, since the current available size in the flash folder is only 2MB.
Please waiting your advice
Thx in advance

Answer 1

Hi,
I have a different issue, I am not sure i can combine on the same thread.
From the DOC, this command is appeared to be useful. I am not sure if it can be applied to my environment.
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO APPLIED ON STANDBY
We have some databases with DG configuration on Sun. We take the backups only primary using RMAN online & archivelog alternate days. But, the archivelogs on standby are to be deleted every day manually (i mean we have a script scheduled for it).
Note: We use "delete input" on primary backup every day after they are backedup by RMAN. Anyway, the logs that are not applied on standby will not be deleted as RMAN is intelligent to keep them safe.
In the past we attempted to delete using rman script with the command shown below.
delete archivelog all completed before 'sysdate-2/24';
This causes a problem every time for us with regard to the primary database Backup as it expects the archivelogs on primay which were deleted by RMAN on standby. We had to crosscheck archivelog all every time to resolve the issue. There seems to be a mismatch of the archlog status both on primary and standby.
Please let me know if the above configuration command "CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY " on both primary and standby or give an idea/steps what way i can use this.
Regards,
Vasu.
Edited by: vasu77 on Aug 31, 2009 4:02 PM
Edited by: vasu77 on Aug 31, 2009 4:05 PM
Edited by: vasu77 on Aug 31, 2009 4:10 PM