I am running Oracle 11.1.0 on Win Server 2008. My autobackups used to go to flash_recovery_area\myDB\autobackup\*yyyy_mm_dd*. Then I added a prefix to the file name in front of %F and they started going to C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\11.1.0\DB_1\DATABASE\ so I removed the prefix but they still don't go to the flash recovery area. I realize I could specify the directory but I would prefer if it went back to putting each backup in its own folder with the date. I didn't make any other changes, any ideas what I am doing wrong? My RMAN config output is:
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name SPATIAL are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 31 DAYS;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'BZIP2'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\11.1.0\DB_1\DATABASE\SNCFSPATIAL.ORA'; # default
Best Answer
Figured out the problem. Simply changing the Autobackup Format back to the default '%F' is not viewed as the default. In order to truly have the default value you must use the clear command.
RMAN behaivor returned to normal. Thanks to all who viewed my question!