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This chapter describes how to troubleshoot Recovery Manager. This chapter contains these topics:
Recovery Manager provides detailed error messages that can aid in troubleshooting problems. Also, the Oracle database server and third-party media vendors generate useful debugging output of their own. This section contains these topics:
Output that is useful for troubleshooting failed RMAN jobs is located in several different places, as explained in the following table.
| Type of Output | Produced By | Location | Description |
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RMAN messages |
RMAN |
Direct this output to: |
Contains actions relevant to the RMAN job as well as error messages generated by RMAN, the server, and the media vendor. RMAN error messages have an |
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Oracle database server |
The directory named in the |
Contains a chronological log of errors, initialization parameter settings, and administration operations. Records values for overwritten control file records (refer to "Monitoring the Overwriting of Control File Records"). |
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Oracle trace file |
Oracle database server |
The directory specified in the |
Contains detailed output generated by Oracle server processes. This file is created when an |
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Third-party media management software |
The directory specified in the |
Contains vendor-specific information written by the media management software. Note that this log does not contain Oracle server or RMAN errors. |
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Media manager log file |
Third-party media management software |
The filenames for any media manager logs other than |
Contains information on the functioning of the media management device. |
On various occasions it may be important for you to determine whether RMAN successfully executed a command. For example, if you are trying to write a script that performs an unattended backup using RMAN, you may want to know whether the backup was a success or failure.
One way to determine whether RMAN encountered an error is to examine its return code, as described in "Identifying RMAN Return Codes". A second way is to search the Recovery Manager output for the string RMAN-00569, which is the message number for the error stack banner. All RMAN errors are preceded by this error message. If you do not see an RMAN-00569 message in the output, then there are no errors. Following is sample output for a syntax error:
RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "}": expecting one of: "archivelog, backup, backupset, channel, comma, controlfilecopy, current, database, datafile, datafilecopy, delete, diskratio, filesperset, format, include, (, parms, pool, ;, skip, setsize, tablespace, tag" RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 58 file: standard input
Typically, you find the following types of error codes in RMAN message stacks:
RMAN-
ORA-
Additional information:
Table 15-1 indicates the error ranges for common RMAN error messages, all of which are described in Oracle9i Database Error Messages.
When errors occur through the media management API, RMAN returns an error message number prefixed as follows:
Additional information:
Table 15-2 lists media manager message numbers and their corresponding error text. In the error codes, O/S stands for operating system. The errors prefixed with an asterisk are internal and should never be seen during normal operation.
Sometimes you may find it difficult to identify the useful messages in the RMAN error stack. Note the following tips and suggestions:
Additional information followed by an integer. This line indicates a media management error. The integer that follows refers to a code that is explained in the text of the error message.
You attempt the following backup of tablespace tbs_99 and receive the following message:
RMAN> BACKUP TABLESPACE tbs_99; allocated channel: c1 channel c1: sid=8 devtype=DISK RMAN-03026: error recovery releasing channel resources RMAN-08031: released channel: c1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command RMAN-03013: command type: backup RMAN-06038: recovery catalog package detected an error RMAN-20202: tablespace not found in the recovery catalog RMAN-06019: could not translate tablespace name "TBS_99"
You read the last two messages in the stack first and immediately see the problem: no tablespace called tbs_99 appears in the recovery catalog. You conclude that tbs_99 does not exist in the database or the recovery catalog has been resynchronized to include this information.
Assume that you attempt to recover a tablespace and receive the following errors:
RMAN> RECOVER TABLESPACE tbs_5; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command RMAN-03013: command type: recover RMAN-03006: non-retryable error occurred during execution of command: recover(3) RMAN-12004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel default RMAN-10032: unhandled exception during execution of job step 1: ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: alter database recover if needed tablespace TBS_5 RMAN-11001: Oracle Error: ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors ORA-01124: cannot recover data file 21 - file is in use or recovery ORA-01110: data file 21: '/ade/lashdown_main/oracle/dbs/tbs_53.f'
As suggested, you start reading from the bottom up. The ORA-01110 message explains there was a problem with the recovery of datafile tbs_53.f. The second error indicates that Oracle cannot recover the datafile because it is in use or already being recovered. The remaining RMAN errors indicate that the recovery session was cancelled due to the server errors. Hence, you conclude that because you were not already recovering this datafile, the problem must be that the datafile is online and you need to take it offline and restore a backup.
Media management errors in RMAN message output are not uncommon. Assume that you use a tape drive and receive the following output during a backup job:
RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: allocate RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel c4 RMAN-10032: unhandled exception during execution of job step 4: ORA-06512: at line 158 RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19624: operation failed, retry possible ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="df_99_1", parms="" ORA-27007: failed to open file HP-UX Error: 1003: Unknown system error Additional information: 7004 Additional information: 1 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE", line 410 RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.DEVICEALLOCATE
Following the suggestions for reading error message stacks, you look for the Additional information line and notice:
Additional information: 7004
You discover that error 7004 means that the media management device is busy. So, the media management software is not able to send the files on the device because it is in use or there is a problem with it. Note also that when you read from the bottom up, the first line says that an error occurred during a call to a PL/SQL program unit called DEVICEALLOCATE. Also, the first message below the stack banner says that there was an error executing the ALLOCATE command. All of this information indicates that RMAN was not able to allocate an sbt channel because of the device.
One way to determine whether RMAN encountered an error is to examine its return code. RMAN returns 0 to the operating system if no errors occurred, a nonzero value otherwise. For example, if you are running UNIX with the C shell, then, when RMAN completes, the return code will be in a shell variable called $status.
On specific platforms, Oracle provides a diagnostic tool called sbttest. This utility performs a simple test of the media management software by acting as the Oracle database server and attempting to communicate with the media manager.
On UNIX, the sbttest utility is located in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. If for some reason the utility is not included with your platform, then contact Oracle Support to obtain the C version of the program. You can compile this version of the program on all UNIX platforms.
Note that on platforms such as Solaris, you do not have to relink when using sbttest. On other platforms, relinking may be necessary.
For online documentation of sbttest, issue the following on the command line:
% sbttest
The program displays the list of possible arguments for the program:
Error: backup file name must be specified Usage: sbttest backup_file_name # this is the only required parameter <-dbname database_name> <-trace trace_file_name> <-remove_before> <-no_remove_after> <-read_only> <-no_regular_backup_restore> <-no_proxy_backup> <-no_proxy_restore> <-file_type n> <-copy_number n> <-media_pool n> <-os_res_size n> <-pl_res_size n> <-block_size block_size> <-block_count block_count> <-proxy_file os_file_name bk_file_name [os_res_size pl_res_size block_size block_count]>
The display also indicates the meaning of each argument. For example, following is the description for two optional parameters:
Optional parameters: -dbname specifies the database name which will be used by SBT to identify the backup file. The default is "sbtdb" -trace specifies the name of a file where the Media Management software will write diagnostic messages.
Use sbttest to perform a quick test of the media manager. The following table explains how to interpret the output.
To use sbttest:
sbttest at the command line:
% sbttest
If the program is operational, then you should see a display of the online documentation.
some_file.f and write the output to sbtio.log:
% sbttest some_file.f -trace sbtio.log
You can also test a backup of an existing datafile. For example, this command tests datafile tbs_33.f of database prod:
% sbttest tbs_33.f -dbname prod
libobk.so could not be loaded. Check that it is installed properly, and that LD_ LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (or its equivalent on your platform) includes the directory where this file can be found. Here is some additional information on the cause of this error: ld.so.1: sbttest: fatal: libobk.so: open failed: No such file or directory
Note that in some cases sbttest can work but an RMAN backup does not. The reasons can be the following:
sbttest is not the owner of the Oracle processes.
sbttest can still work.
sbttest program passes all environment parameters from the shell but RMAN does not.
You have the following methods for terminating an RMAN command while it is executing:
CTRL+C (or the equivalent "attention" key combination for your system) in the RMAN interface, which is the preferred method. This operation also terminates allocated channels unless they are hung in the media management code, for example, when they are waiting for a tape to be mounted.
ALTER SYSTEM statement.
You can identify the Oracle session ID for an RMAN channel by looking in the RMAN log for messages with the format shown in the following example:
channel ch1: sid=15 devtype=DISK
The sid and devtype are displayed for each allocated channel. Note that the Oracle sid is different from the operating system process ID. You can kill the session by specifying the sid in a SQL statement, but the commands are not the same as the operating system process kill commands.
You can specify the sid in the SQL statement ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION command. It takes two arguments (the sid printed in the RMAN message and a serial number), both of which can be obtained by querying V$SESSION. For example, run the following statement, where sid_in_rman_output is the number from the RMAN message:
SELECT SERIAL# FROM V$SESSION WHERE SID=sid_in_rman_output;
Then, run the following statement, substituting the sid_in_rman_output and serial number obtained from the query:
ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'sid_in_rman_output,serial#';
Note that this is no more effective than killing at the operating system level if the process is hung in the media manager.
Finding and killing the processes that are associated with the server sessions is operating system specific. Note that on some platforms the server sessions are not associated with any processes at all. See your operating system specific documentation for more information.
You may sometimes need to kill an RMAN job that is hanging when RMAN is interacting with a media manager. The best way to terminate RMAN when the connections for the allocated channels are hung in the media manager is to abort the session in the media manager. If this action does not solve the problem, then the next step is to kill the Oracle processes of the connections. Note that killing the Oracle process can cause problems for the media manager.
This section contains these topics:
The nature of an RMAN session depends on the operating system. In UNIX, an RMAN session has the following processes associated with it:
DUPLICATE or performing TSPITR, none otherwise)
ALLOCATE CHANNEL or CONFIGURE CHANNEL commands. One polling connection exists for each distinct connect string used in the ALLOCATE CHANNEL or CONFIGURE CHANNEL command.
RMAN usually hangs because one of the channel connections is waiting in the media manager code for a tape resource. The catalog connection and the default channel seem to hang because they are waiting for RMAN to tell them what to do. Polling connections seem to be in an infinite loop while polling the RPC under the control of the RMAN process.
If you kill the RMAN process itself, then you also kill the catalog connection, the auxiliary connection, the default channel, and the polling connections. Target and auxiliary connections that are not hung in the media manager code are also terminated: only the target and auxiliary connections executing in the media management layer remains active. You must manually kill this process because terminating its session does not kill it. Even after termination, the media manager may keep resources busy or continue processing because it does not realize that the Oracle process is gone. This behavior depends on which media manager you use.
Terminating the catalog connection does not cause RMAN to finish because RMAN is not performing catalog operations while the backup or restore is in progress. Removing default channel and polling connections causes the RMAN process to detect that one of the channels has died and then proceed to exit. In this case, the connections to the hung channels remain active as described previously.
The best way to terminate RMAN when the connections for the allocated channels are hung in the media manager is to kill the Oracle process of the connections. The RMAN process detects this termination and proceed to exit, removing all connections except target connections that are still operative in the media management layer. The caveat about the media manager resources still applies in this case.
To terminate an Oracle process that is hung in the media manager:
This procedure is operating system specific.
/usr/proc/bin/pstack command to obtain the stack.
sbtxxxx (normally sbtopen) in the stack trace.
kill -9 command.
This section contains these topics:
In this scenario, you install and test the media manager as explained in "Configuring RMAN to Make Backups to a Media Manager", but you still cannot make RMAN back up to tape. For example, after allocating the sbt channel, you receive an error stack similar to the following:
RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00579: the following error occurred at 03/02/2001 10:21:18 RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: allocate RMAN-12004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel foo RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE,device name: ORA-19557: device error, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library Additional information: 2 RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.DEVICEALLOCATE
The ORA-27211 error indicates that the channel allocation is failing because Oracle is not loading the media management library. If the channel allocation fails, then Oracle generates a trace file in the USER_DUMP_DEST location that contains the error that caused the channel allocation to fail. The trace file should have the complete path name of the media management library loaded by Oracle as well as any other media manager errors or operating system errors. For example, the trace file on UNIX may be called something like /oracle/rdbms/log/prod1_ora_16226.trc, and may contain information such as the following:
*** SESSION ID:(10.1) 2001-02-16 17:55:12.941 SKGFQ OSD: Error in function sbtinit on line 2272 SKGFQ OSD: Look for SBT Trace messages in file /oracle/rdbms/log/sbtio.log SBT Initialize failed for oracle.static
The last line of this output indicates that Oracle is loading the default static library instead of the media management library that you installed.
To test the loading of the media management library, try allocating a channel by using the PARMS parameter SBT_LIBRARY to force the loading of the media management library. For example, if your library is called /vendor/lib/some_mm_lib.so and is pointed to by $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so, then run a command such as the following, making sure to specify whatever PARMS settings are required by your media manager:
RUN { ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 DEVICE TYPE sbt PARMS='SBT_LIBRARY=/oracle/lib/libobk.so', 'ENV=(NSR_SERVER=tape_svr,NSR_CLIENT=oracleclnt,NSR_GROUP=oracle_tapes)'; }
If the channel allocation fails, then check the trace file again to see whether you can learn anything new. If the channel allocation with SBT_LIBRARY succeeds, but an ordinary sbt channel allocation fails, then Oracle is probably trying to load a library ($ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so on UNIX, %ORACLE_HOME%/bin/orasbt.dll on NT) other than the one you installed. You may have more than one library in the operating system path, and the one that Oracle is loading is the wrong one.
If the problem is that Oracle is not loading the correct library, then make sure that the library is named correctly. For example, on UNIX you should name it $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/libobk.so or create a symbolic link with this name that points to your library, and on Windows NT you should name it %ORACLE_HOME%/bin/orasbt.dll. It is possible to place these files in nondefault directories, but they must be included in the system path so that Oracle can locate them.
In this scenario, an RMAN backup job starts as normal and then pauses inexplicably:
Recovery Manager: Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production connected to target database: PROD1 connected to recovery catalog database RMAN> BACKUP TABLESPACE SYSTEM, users; allocated channel: t1 channel t1: sid=16 devtype=SBT_TAPE channel t1: starting datafile backupset set_count=15 set_stamp=338309600 channel t1: including datafile 2 in backupset channel t1: including datafile 1 in backupset channel t1: including current controlfile in backupset # Hanging here for 30 minutes now
If a backup job is hanging, that is, not proceeding, then several scenarios are possible:
Because the causes of a hung backup job can be varied, so are the solutions. The best practice is to look for the simplest solutions first. For example, backup jobs often hang simply because the tape device has completely filled the current cassette and is waiting for a new tape to be inserted.
If the media manager is not waiting for a new tape, then examine media manager process, log, and trace files for signs of abnormal termination or other errors (refer to the description of message files in "Identifying Types of Message Output").
On the Oracle side, check to see what the server session performing the backup are doing. The RMAN output prints the SID of the server session, as in this example:
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=12 devtype=DISK
How many processes are hanging? If only one, check what it is doing by querying V$SESSION_WAIT. For example, to see what server session 12 is doing, enter:
SQL> SELECT * FROM V$SESSION_WAIT WHERE WAIT_TIME = 0 AND SID = 12;
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In this scenario, you run a backup job and receive message output similar to the following:
channel c8: including datafile number 47 in backupset RPC call appears to have failed to start on channel c9 RPC call ok on channel c9 channel c3: including datafile number 18 in backupset
The RPC call appears to have failed message does not usually indicate a problem. The message indicates one of the following:
Timing problems occur in this way. When RMAN begins an RPC, it checks the V$SESSION performance view. The RPC updates the information in the view to indicate when it starts and finishes. Sometimes RMAN checks V$SESSION before the RPC has indicated it has started, which in turn generates the following message:
RPC call appears to have failed
If a message stating "RPC call ok" does not appear in the output immediately following the message stating "RPC call appears to have failed", then the backup job encountered a problem.
In this scenario, you attempt a backup and receive the following error messages:
RMAN-3014: Implicit resync of recovery catalog failed RMAN-6038: Recovery catalog package detected an error RMAN-20035: Invalid high RECID error
You probably restored a backup control file created through a non-Oracle mechanism, and then opened the database without performing a RESETLOGS operation. If you had created the backup control file through the RMAN BACKUP command or the ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE statement, then Oracle would have required you to reset the logs.
The control file and the recovery catalog are now not synchronized. The database control file is older than the recovery catalog, because at one time the recovery catalog resynchronized with the old current control file, and now the database is using a backup control file. RMAN detects that the control file currently in use is older than the control file previously used to resynchronize.
You can follow either of these procedures, although the first procedure is safer and is strongly recommended:
To reset the database with RMAN:
% sqlplus 'SYS/oracle@prod1 AS SYSDBA'
SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;
USING BACKUP CONTROLFILE clause stamps the controlfile as a backup, which then permits OPEN RESETLOGS. For example, enter:
SQL> ALTER DATABASE RECOVER DATABASE UNTIL CANCEL USING BACKUP CONTROLFILE; SQL> ALTER DATABASE RECOVER CANCEL;
RESETLOGS option. For example, enter:
SQL> ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;
% rman TARGET SYS/oracle@prod1 CATALOG rman/rman@rcat
RMAN> RESET DATABASE;
RMAN> BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;
To create the control file with SQL*Plus:
% sqlplus 'SYS/oracle@prod1 AS SYSDBA'
SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;
SQL> ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE;
*** SESSION ID:(8.1) 2000.12.09.13.26.36.000 *** 2000.12.09.13.26.36.000 # The following statements will create a new control file and use it # to open the database. # Data used by the recovery manager will be lost. Additional logs may # be required for media recovery of offline data files. Use this # only if the current version of all online logs are available. STARTUP NOMOUNT CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "PROD1" NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG MAXLOGFILES 32 MAXLOGMEMBERS 2 MAXDATAFILES 32 MAXINSTANCES 1 MAXLOGHISTORY 1012 LOGFILE GROUP 1 '/oracle/dbs/t1_log1.f' SIZE 200K, GROUP 2 '/oracle/dbs/t1_log2.f' SIZE 200K DATAFILE '/oracle/dbs/tbs_01.f', '/oracle/dbs/tbs_02.f', '/oracle/dbs/tbs_11.f', '/oracle/dbs/tbs_12.f', '/oracle/dbs/tbs_21.f', '/oracle/dbs/tbs_22.f', CHARACTER SET WE8DEC ; # Configure snapshot controlfile filename EXECUTE SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.CFILESETSNAPSHOTNAME('/oracle/dbs/snapcf_prod1.f'); # Recovery is required if any of the datafiles are restored backups, # or if the last shutdown was not normal or immediate. RECOVER DATABASE # All logs need archiving and a log switch is needed. ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG ALL; # Database can now be opened normally. ALTER DATABASE OPEN; # No tempfile entries found to add.
SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE
STARTUP NOMOUNT CREATE CONTROLFILE ...; EXECUTE ...; RECOVER DATABASE ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG ALL; ALTER DATABASE OPEN ...;
In this scenario, a backup job fails because RMAN cannot make a snapshot control file. The message stack is as follows:
set_count=11 set_stamp=333299261 channel dev1: including datafile 1 in backupset waiting for snapshot controlfile enqueue waiting for snapshot controlfile enqueue cannot make a snapshot controlfile error recovery releasing channel resources released channel: dev1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03006: non-retryable error occurred during execution of command: backup RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel dev1 RMAN-10032: unhandled exception during execution of job step 1: ORA-06512: at line 90 RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-00230: operation disallowed: snapshot controlfile enqueue unavailable ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE", line 1826 RMAN-10031: ORA-230 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.CFILEMAKEANDUSESNAPSHOT
When RMAN needs to back up or resynchronize from the control file, it first creates a snapshot or consistent image of the control file. If one RMAN job is already backing up the control file while another needs to create a new snapshot control file, then you may see the following message:
waiting for snapshot controlfile enqueue
Under normal circumstances, a job that must wait for the control file enqueue waits for a brief interval and then successfully obtains the enqueue. Recovery Manager makes up to five attempts to get the enqueue and then fails the job. The conflict is usually caused when two jobs are both backing up the control file, and the job that first starts backing up the control file waits for service from the media manager.
To determine which job is holding the conflicting enqueue:
RMAN-08512: waiting for snapshot controlfile enqueue", start a new SQL*Plus session on the target database:
% sqlplus 'SYS/sys_pwd@prod1 AS SYSDBA'
SELECT s.SID, USERNAME AS "User", PROGRAM, MODULE, ACTION, LOGON_TIME "Logon", l.* FROM V$SESSION s, V$ENQUEUE_LOCK l WHERE l.SID = s.SID and l.TYPE = 'CF' AND l.ID1 = 0 and l.ID2 = 2;
You should see output similar to the following (the output in this example has been truncated):
SID User Program Module Action Logon --- ---- -------------------- ------------------------- ---------------- --------- 9 SYS rman@h13 (TNS V1-V3) backup full datafile: c1 0000210 STARTED 21-JUN-01
After you have determined which job is creating the enqueue, you can do one of the following:
Commonly, enqueue situations occur when a job is writing to a tape drive, but the tape drive is waiting for a new cassette to be inserted. If you start a new job in this situation, then you will probably receive the enqueue message because the first job cannot complete until the new tape is loaded.
In this scenario, the database archives automatically to two directories: /oracle/arch/dest1 and /oracle/arch/dest2. You tell RMAN to perform a backup and delete the input archived redo logs afterward in the following script:
BACKUP ARCHIVELOG ALL DELETE INPUT;
You then run a crosscheck to make sure the logs are gone and find the following:
CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL; validation succeeded for archived log archivelog filename=/oracle/arch/dest2/arcr_1_964.arc recid=19 stamp=368726072
RMAN deleted one set of logs but not the other.
This problem is not an error. When you specify DELETE INPUT without the ALL keyword, RMAN deletes only one copy of each input log. Even if you archive to five destinations, RMAN deletes logs from only one directory.
To force RMAN to delete all existing archived redo logs, use the DELETE ALL INPUT clause of the BACKUP command. For example, enter:
BACKUP ARCHIVELOG ALL DELETE ALL INPUT;
In this scenario, you schedule regular incremental backups of the database. The next time you make a backup, you receive this error:
RMAN-6089: archive log NAME not found or out of sync with catalog
This problem occurs when the archived log that RMAN is looking for cannot be accessed by RMAN, or the recovery catalog needs to be resynchronized. Often, this error occurs when you delete archived logs with an operating system command, which means that RMAN is unaware of the deletion. The RMAN-6089 error occurs because RMAN attempts to back up a log that the repository indicates still exists.
Make sure that the archived logs exists in the specified directory and that the RMAN catalog is synchronized. Check the following:
RMAN-6089 error exists in the correct directory.
owner = oracle, group = DBA) to make sure that RMAN can access the file.
RESYNC CATALOG;
If you know that the logs are unavailable because you deleted them by using an operating system utility, then run the following command at the RMAN prompt to update RMAN metadata:
CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL;
It is always better to use RMAN to delete logs than to use an operating system utility. The easiest method to remove unwanted logs is to specify the DELETE INPUT option when backing up archived logs. For example, enter:
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt ARCHIVELOG ALL DELETE ALL INPUT;
In this scenario, you are running a release 8.1.5 version of the RMAN executable and trying to connect to a release 8.0.4 target database. You receive the following error messages when you try to connect to the target database:
% rman CATALOG rman/rman@rcat Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.5.0.0 - Production RMAN-06008: connected to recovery catalog database RMAN> CONNECT TARGET sys/oscar123@nc0d RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ==== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-04005: error from target database: ORA-06550: line 1, column 7: PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.SET_CHARSET' must be declared ORA-06550: line 1, column 7: PL/SQL: Statement ignored RMAN-04015: error setting target database character set to WE8ISO8859P1
Typically, this error message means that the DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE package was not created during the installation of the database. Here are possible causes:
If you did not install the PL/SQL option, then install it. If you did install the PL/SQL option, then create the required packages by connecting to SQL*Plus with SYSDBA privileges and running the following scripts:
SQL> @$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsbkrs.sql SQL> @$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/prvtbkrs.plb
In this scenario, you are connected to the target database while it is not open and attempting to perform an RMAN operation. You receive the following error:
PLS-00553: character set name is not recognized
Typically, this message means that the character set in the client environment, that is, the environment in which you are running the RMAN executable, is different from the character set in the target database environment.
NLS_CHARACTERSET parameter. For example, run this query:
SQL> SELECT VALUE FROM V$NLS_PARAMETERS WHERE PARAMETER='NLS_CHARACTERSET';
NLS_LANG environment variable on a UNIX system as follows:
% setenv NLS_LANG WE8ISO8859P1
RMAN fails with the following errors when trying to connect to the target database:
% rman Recovery Manager: Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production RMAN> CONNECT TARGET sys/change_on_install@inst1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-04005: error from target database: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
RMAN automatically requests a connection to the target database as SYSDBA. In order to connect to the target as SYSDBA, you must do one of the following:
DBA group with respect to the target database (that is, have the ability to connect with SYSDBA privileges to the target database without a password).
orapwd command and the initialization parameter REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE.
If the target database does not have a password file, then the user you are logged in as must be validated with operating system authentication.
Either create a password file for the target database or add yourself to the administrator list in the operating system.
To learn how to create a password file, see
In this scenario, you attempt to duplicate a database to the same host (although it could also be a remote host) using the DUPLICATE command, but get the following error stack during compilation of the RECOVER command:
starting media recovery unable to find archivelog archivelog thread=1 sequence=6 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00601: fatal error in recovery manager RMAN-03012: fatal error during compilation of command RMAN-03028: fatal error code: 3015 RMAN-03013: command type: Duplicate Db RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command RMAN-03013: command type: recover RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command RMAN-03013: command type: recover(4) RMAN-06038: recovery catalog package detected an error RMAN-20242: specification does not match any archivelog in the recovery catalog
The problem is probably that the backup of the datafiles is not consistent, that is, the following SQL statement was not issued after the datafile backup:
SQL> ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT;
Consequently, the DUPLICATE command is attempting to read the online redo logs for the necessary redo records.
When creating the duplication script, use the SET UNTIL command to specify a log sequence number for incomplete recovery. For example, to stop recovery at log sequence 5, enter:
RUN { SET UNTIL SEQUENCE 5 THREAD 1; DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE TO dupdb;
}
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See Also:
"Creating a Non-Current Duplicate Database: Example" for more information about performing incomplete recovery during the duplication operation |
In this scenario, you list the database incarnations registered in the recovery catalog and see a database with the name UNKNOWN:
LIST INCARNATION OF DATABASE; RMAN-03022: compiling command: list List of Database Incarnations DB Key Inc Key DB Name DB ID CUR Reset SCN Reset Time ------- ------- ------- ------ --- ---------- ---------- 56 57 SKDHRA 4052472287 YES 1 Sep 03 2000 06:45:51 1 19 UNKNOWN 4141147584 NO 1 Jan 08 2000 14:47:28 1 2 SKDHRC 4141147584 YES 14602 Jan 15 2000 15:32:57
One way you get the DB_NAME of UNKNOWN is when you register a database that was once opened with the RESETLOGS option. The DB_NAME can be changed during a RESETLOGS operation, so RMAN does not know what the DB_NAME was for those old incarnations of the database because it was not registered in the recovery catalog at the time. Consequently, RMAN sets the DB_NAME column to UNKNOWN when creating the DBINC record.
The UNKNOWN name entry is expected behavior after a RESETLOGS operation. You should not attempt to remove UNKNOWN entries from the recovery catalog.
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