A Customer would like to copy RMAN Backups for long term to S3.
The retention policy in the BackupCopyJob settings has only "days" no GFS at all. I can not realy set this to 700days
What do you guys think of this work-a-round:
- Dedicated repo for full db backup
- Adding this repo to a 'standard' Backup Copy job? (never used this option before)
- Setting GFS in the 'standard' Backup Copy job to something like 34d, 4w, 12m, 3y
It will not work because plug-in backups must be processed by a dedicated job for application backups. However, you can specify a longer retention period in this job. We are planning to provide GFS retention for both primary and secondary backups in one of our future releases, most likely, GFS retention for primary backups will be available first.
