Delete archive logs manually

 · Delete Archive Log Files from Oracle Database 1. Go to the Oracle server. Launch the command prompt. 2. Type: RMAN 3. Type: connect target sys@SIDname 4. Once connected to RMAN prompt, run the following command: RMAN crosscheck archivelog all; 5. Then have RMAN run this: RMAN delete expired. There were few resolutions which may help in removing archive log files: connect to rman and do delete archivelog all; since you manually deleted archive log, the info from controlfile still shows that you have those file on disk. you need to sync your controlfile by: rman crosscheck backup; rman #if using catalog: resync;. Oracle does not allow deleting of older archive, the workaround is to use the “FORCE” keyword if we are sure that we no longer need those archives. RMAN DELETE FORCE ARCHIVELOG ALL BACKED UP 2 TIMES to disk; released channel: ORA_DISK_1. allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1. channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=72 device type=DISK.

If, for some reason, the transactions are not applied on the standby, the delete command triggers a RMAN warning, and the archived log files are not deleted. And if the FRA is filling up with a ORA warning, the automatic cleanup will still remove all files that are eligible for deletion. Delete Archivelog files without using RMAN Here I am explaining two methods to delete archive logs and other database files with out using RMAN from ASM Disk Group in Oracle 10g/11g. Method 1: asmcmd - ASM command-line utility. AM. if you have backed up your archive logs, try this RMAN command: delete archivelog backed up 1 times to device type sbt ; --if you backup to tape. delete archivelog backed up 1 times to device type disk; -- if you backup to disk. 0 · Share on Twitter Share on Facebook.

We can delete the archivelogs by force using the following command. RMAN delete noprompt force archivelog all; Happy Learning. Wysheid Team. For a cluster file system archiving scheme, if every node writes to the archived logs on the same cluster file system, then the archived log can be deleted by any allocated channel. If you have not configured automatic channels, then you can manually allocate the maintenance channels as follows and delete the archived logs. Here are the commands to remove the archivelogs. Note: If you remove archivelogs with out backing up it is better to take a fresh level 0 backup of the database to avoid the data lose. Commands: RMAN delete archivelog all; released channel: ORA_DISK_1. released channel: ORA_DISK_2.