Hi! I'm running Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2. I'm not using a recovery
catalog, nor am I using media management software. I perform a full,
online rman backup of the database and archived redo logs daily to
disk, then use operating system commands to copy the backup to tape.
There is only space on disk for two days' backups, so I need to have a
retention policy of "redundancy = 1", and run a "delete obsolete"
prior to the backup. The problem is that I don't want to subject the
archived redo logs to this retention policy. I have two physical
standby databases connected by WAN to the primary site, and I might
need archived redo logs that are a few days old in the event of a
prolonged WAN outage. I've read about the "keep forever" option, but
apparently it isn't available without using a recovery catalog. Is
there any way to spare the archived redo logs from my retention
policy?

Thanks for reading!

Myles