Just posting this for list posterity as I didn’t see
much in search (mostly about 245 on Informix).
We’re running NBU 6.5x and this morning I saw an RMAN
archive log backup that runs at night as well as the man RMAN database backup
we run starting at 9 AM both failed with status code 245.
Interestingly the detail for both jobs had almost no information and didn’t
even allow me to see what a 245 was.
A web search shows this issue for Informix (from 2004) but
not for Oracle RMAN.
Running “bperror -statuscode 245” displayed:
the specified policy is not of the correct client type
A user backup specified a policy that is not the type that
is required for the client.
Running “bperror -jobid 632020” which is one of
the failed jobs didn’t help much as it only displayed:
1292508052 1 66 4 atubks01 632020 -1 0 *NULL* nbpem CLIENT ralpha
POLICY RALPH-DB-ORA SCHED Full-Offsite EXIT STATUS 245 (the
specified policy is not of the correct client type)
On checking the two policies I found that both had policy as
“Standard” instead of “Oracle”.
Yesterday my co-worker had tried to do a mass change to move policies from one
of our data domain units to another. One of the unintended
consequences of what he did was it reactivated many of our deactivated
policies. My theory is that it also changed the policy type from
Oracle to Standard on these two policies as they were among the ones moved.
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