Why .arc files generated on Red Hat Satellite server?

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Issue

  • The filesystem that has Oracle archive files got filled up. How to handle these files?
  • Database backup is done by command: db-control backup [directory]
  • Following are some of the files looks like these are Oracle DB archive files.
[root@satellite archive]# pwd
/rhnsat/admin/rhnsat/archive
[root@satellite archive]# ls -lt|more
total 209384280
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba  97062912 Jul 11 10:24 arch_1_3509_737722292.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba  97044480 Jul 11 10:24 arch_1_3507_737722292.arc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba  97044480 Jul 11 10:24 arch_1_3508_737722292.arc
[...]

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.5
  • Embedded Database

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