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[Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN Error 6 / Removing Files

2007-03-06 11:19:16
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN Error 6 / Removing Files
From: wts at maine.edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:19:16 -0500
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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