Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA

Today when trying to backup full database, I’ve  encountered error which says RMAN failed to access one of the datafile. I found that datafile is not of any use, hence  I’ve  dropped the datafile offline but still RMAN not allowed me to backup database. Here is one of the resolution to fix such issue when you are sure that datafile is not of any use.

RMAN> backup database;

Starting backup at 09-DEC-12
using channel ORA_DISK_1
could not read file header for datafile 9 error reason 4
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 12/09/2012 14:28:13
RMAN-06056: could not access datafile 9

RMAN> backup database skip inaccessible;

Starting backup at 09-DEC-12
using channel ORA_DISK_1
could not access datafile 9
skipping inaccessible file 9
RMAN-06060: WARNING: skipping datafile compromises tablespace RMAN recoverability
RMAN-06060: WARNING: skipping datafile compromises tablespace RMAN recoverability
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00001 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf
input datafile fno=00003 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf
input datafile fno=00006 name=/u01/app/oracle/aliflaila
input datafile fno=00005 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/example01.dbf
input datafile fno=00008 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs007.dbf
input datafile fno=00002 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf
input datafile fno=00004 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/users01.dbf
input datafile fno=00007 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/users02.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 09-DEC-12