Crontab setting for Oracle trace and audit files

The below crontab entries work like so:

1. Every Sunday at 3:00 AM (OS server time) an archive per group of files is created (Trace, Audit and Dump files), the files are transferred to *TBL
2. Every Sunday at 4:00 AM the files (Trace, Audit and Dump) are removed from their original location
3. Every day at 3:00 AM archives older than 30 days are removed from *TBL

Trace Backup Location (TBL): $BACKUP_FOLDER - This needs to be either replaced or > > setup prior to editing the crontab

Make sure the following environment variables are set for the user, which executes the crontab

```$ORACLE_HOME```
```$BACKUP_FOLDER``` (if you use it)

To open the crontab in edit mode do

crontab -e

The actual crontab code that does all of the above is

#Backs up the files that are to be deleted 0 3 * * sun find $ORACLE_BASE/admin -name “.aud” | xargs -d “\n” tar -czvf $BACKUP_FOLDER/base_audit_backup_date +%F_%T.tar.gz 0 3 * * sun find $ORACLE_BASE/diag/rdbms -name “.tr” | xargs -d “\n” tar -czvf $BACKUP_FOLDER/trace_backup_date +%F_%T.tar.gz 0 3 * * sun find $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit -name “.aud” | xargs -d “\n” tar -czvf $BACKUP_FOLDER/home_aud_backup_date +%F_%T.tar.gz

#Removes all the Trace, Audit and Dump files 0 4 * * sun find $ORACLE_BASE/admin -name “.aud” | xargs rm 0 4 * * sun find $ORACLE_BASE/diag/rdbms -name “.tr” | xargs rm 0 4 * * sun find $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit -name “.aud” | xargs rm

#Removes archives older than 1 month 0 3 * * * find $BACKUP_FOLDER -name “*.tar.gz” -mtime +30 | xargs rm ```

*Make sure the paths are correct, as the ones here reflect a fairly standard Oracle installation.