RMAN-08591: WARNING: invalid archived log deletion policy

Mehmet Salih Deveci

5 years ago

Hi,

Sometimes You can get “RMAN-08591: WARNING: invalid archived log deletion policy ” error.

Details of error are as follows.

RMAN-08591: WARNING: invalid archived log deletion policy

Cause: An invalid ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY was supplied. The archived log deletion policy was APPLIED but

there was no mandatory archived log destinations.

Action: One of the following:

1) Change archived log deletion policy using CONFIGURE command

2) Make one or more of standby destination as MANDATORY.

This error is related with the Unpublished bug 5483067 is fixed in 11.2.03 and 12.1 versions.
Workaround: You can set the RMAN persistent configuration parameter as follows to solve this error.

RMAN> CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO APPLIED ON ALL STANDBY;

Do you want to learn more details about RMAN, then read the following articles.

https://ittutorial.org/rman-backup-restore-and-recovery-tutorials-for-beginners-in-the-oracle-database/