Category: RAC | Data Guard

Hi all!
Sometimes you are caught in a situation where your database is not backuping archivelogs and need to generate a quick backup commands for those are not backuped yet and deleting it, right?
I saw this situation in this archived discussion at OTN. Unfortunately I couldn’t give my answer… But it’s how I do:

select
'backup archivelog from sequence '||sequence#||' until sequence '||sequence#||' thread '||thread#||' filesperset=1 delete input;',first_time
from v$archived_log where backup_count=0 and name is not null
order by first_time desc;

It generates an output like:

greporadb> select
  2  'backup archivelog from sequence '||sequence#||' until sequence '||sequence#||' thread '||thread#||' filesperset=1 delete input;',first_time
  3  from v$archived_log where backup_count=0 and name is not null
  4  order by first_time desc;
'BACKUPARCHIVELOGFROMSEQUEN                                                                                                                                             
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
backup archivelog from sequence 152153 until sequence 152153 thread 1 filesperset=1 delete input;                                                                       
backup archivelog from sequence 152152 until sequence 152152 thread 1 filesperset=1 delete input;                                                                       
backup archivelog from sequence 152151 until sequence 152151 thread 1 filesperset=1 delete input;                                                                       
3 rows selected.

And be happy!

But an observation! It not works this way for databases with dataguard. For these cases you’ll need to add “and name’&dgname’” at select where clause… 😉

See ya!
Matheus.