I can't help on what might have caused the problem, but I'd take a DB
backup right away and then use RMAN "crosscheck" to straighten things
out with RMAN/Oracle. W/o a DB backup, archive redo logs after the
missing files are worthless.
cheers, wayne
Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote, in part, on 3/6/2007 10:01 AM:
> I just got made aware of an issue I have yet to research fully but I
> thought I would bounce it off the mob. When backing up a development
> RMAN / Oracle Database, two archive logs failed with error 6 - the
> backup failed to back up the requested files(6). Upon inspection, the
> RMAN log listed the two files in the log as to be backed up, but the
> files are physically not on the drive. My DBA thinks that Netbackup
> removed the archive logs before it backed them up. Translated into
> Netbackup, that means RMAN got the "all clear" to complete the backup
> job (which normally removes the files) while in reality, Netbackup
> failed to back two of them up. This issue appears to coincide with
> our 5.1 MP4 --> 6.0 MP4 upgrade. The clients are still running 5.1
> MP4. Any ideas? NBU Knowledge base has a few things on the error 6
> but non look appropriate.
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