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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Alan.

Asked: January 06, 2025 - 8:53 pm UTC

Last updated: January 16, 2025 - 7:15 am UTC

Version: Oracle 19c

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Hi,

Recently while preparing to run the Release Upgrade for 19.24 I was doing a cold back of my ORACLE_HOME and I noticed that I had a ton of old .log, .trc, and .trm files. I deleted old files in the trace directory, audit directory, and some of the log directories. I also leanred that OPatch now has a nice option to clean up .patch_storage which was really full of old files that I had always been afraid to touch.

Is there an approved list of directories to periodically purge (maybe 30+ day old files) for ORACLE_HOME and the oraInventory?

Thanks,
Alan

and Connor said...

Depending on your platform you might want to take a look at this MOS note

Doc ID 2081655.1 - purgeLogs: Archive & Cleanup traces, logs in one command.

which has a tool to do this for you.,

Also, check out ADRCI which will manage stuff under the "diag" directory for you based on retention settings, eg

adrci> set control (SHORTP_POLICY = 72)
adrci> set control (LONGP_POLICY= 720)

(those values in hours)

For the stuff like old patches and the inventory, then OPatch is the tool for that, as you've already noted.

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Alan Rosenthal, January 14, 2025 - 5:28 pm UTC

Hi Connor,

Thanks! It works like a charm.

Alan
Connor McDonald
January 16, 2025 - 7:15 am UTC

glad it worked out
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