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ORA-01208: data file is an old version - not accessing current version

2936610Jun 27 2015 — edited Jun 29 2015

Hi ,

I have a datafile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs with the extension ora, so i thought it i some other file , whose size is 3G. So to consume space i zipped the file

Later realized that it is  a datafile of the tablespace. and Extracted  Now i am not able to take the backup or bring offline of that tablespace.

through this error

ORA-01122: database file 5 failed verification check

ORA-01110: data file 5: '/u01/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/<name>.ora'

ORA-01208: data file is an old version - not accessing current version

Read of datafile '/u01/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/<name>.ora' (fno 5) header failed with ORA-01208

Rereading datafile 5 header failed with ORA-01208

'please help how to recover this error

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