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Hi All,
Recently One of our clients observed that archive logs were automatically
getting deleted  from the flash receovery area of the database.
The alert log of the database reported the deleteion of the archive log
as shown below
Tue Aug 7 01:37:12 2007
Deleted Oracle managed file +CNDB2/cndb/archivelog/2007_07_12/thread_2_seq_2001.2595.627775693
Tue Aug 7 02:57:12 2007
Thread 2 advanced to log sequence 2813
Current log# 13 seq# 2813 mem# 0: +CNDB2/cndb/onlinelog/group_13.3352.627502381
Current log# 13 seq# 2813 mem# 1: +CNDB2/cndb/onlinelog/group_13.3350.627502381
Tue Aug 7 […]

The preferred way of doing the file movement amoung ASM DISKGROUPS is using RMAN. RMAN is critical to Automatic Storage Management and is responsible for tracking the ASM filenames and for deleting obsolete ASM files. Since ASM files cannot be accessed through normal operating system interfaces, RMAN is the preferred means of copying ASM file.
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