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ORA-01858 error in RMAN during backup backupset format '/test/rman/%U'

650748Jul 18 2008 — edited Jul 18 2008
Hello!

I am trying to perform bacup using command
RMAN> backup backupset completed after 'sysdate-1' format '/tmp/test/%U';

as described in:
646274

All backupsets are copied to /tmp/test/.
Everything is going fine except the last message from RMAN:

...
input backupset count=5342 stamp=660348635 creation_time=17-JUL-08
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 18-JUL-08
piece handle=/tmp/test/6ujlo7mr_1_2 comment=NONE
channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 18-JUL-08
channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:15
input backupset count=5343 stamp=660348722 creation_time=17-JUL-08
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 18-JUL-08
piece handle=/tmp/test/6vjlo7pi_1_2 comment=NONE
channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 18-JUL-08
channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:15
input backupset count=5344 stamp=660348810 creation_time=17-JUL-08
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 18-JUL-08
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_DISK_1 channel at 07/18/2008 10:59:48
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected

I suspect that rman is performing, at the end of backup, some internal work (store something in control file based catalog or so) and catches ORA-01858.

The destination catalog is local catalog (not nfs mounted remote dir).
RMAN is spawned from the same node the Oracle Database is running on.
I tested it on two servers.
Error occurs on both of them:
version 10g (ia-32) - flash recovery area on filesystem
and version 11g (Aix) - flash on ASM

RMAN-oracle10> show all ;
using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 1;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/opt/oracle/10gSE/dbs/snap_dbname.dbf'; # default

RMAN-oracle11> show all ;

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name O2DB are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'BZIP2'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/dbname_1/dbs/snapcf_dbname.f';

How to diagnose the problem?
How check what RMAN is exactly doing when error occurs?
Or maybe there is better way to achieve this:
I want to move backupset from asm realm to remote server without storing them on local, non asm disk.
Any suggestions kindly welcome!

Thanx!
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