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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

RMAN's CONFIGURE ... CLEAR command resets the configuration to its default value. For retention policy, the default configuration is REDUNDANCY 1. It does not remove retention policy entirely (which would be NONE) nor does it cause DELETE OBSOLETE to fail.

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