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Consider this RMAN command: RMAN> CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY CLEAR; What is the effect of this command?

  1. Backups will never expire.

  2. It removes any retention policy.

  3. The DELETE OBSOLETE command will fail with an error.

  4. It sets the retention policy to the default of REDUNDANCY 1.
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Explanation

CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY CLEAR resets the retention policy to its default setting, which is REDUNDANCY 1. This means RMAN will retain one backup of each file and consider older backups of the same file as obsolete.

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