We've been running a weekly job on our instances to detect corruption. A simple RMAN "backup check logical validate database;"
We have a few instances that are running in NOARCHIVE mode. As we've been moving from 11G to 12C the jobs on the NOARCHIVE instances have been failing.
RMAN> backup check logical validate database;
2> exit
Starting backup at 05-OCT-15
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=800 device type=DISK
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 10/05/2015 05:00:06
RMAN-06149: cannot BACKUP DATABASE in NOARCHIVELOG mode
Recovery Manager complete.
Are we SOL on this? Is there no way under 12C to validate a database in NOARCHIVE mode?