From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed May 18 13:33:44 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4IIXibZ005659 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:33:44 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4IIXh4Z005654 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:33:43 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4FD3419574F; Wed, 18 May 2005 12:30:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09073-01; Wed, 18 May 2005 12:30:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id C96111955EC; Wed, 18 May 2005 12:30:53 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=AcbyeeTLf4FkVL4CryjKKPNn5he8FD4+G5h0BhDwDH1i9ZRz7mgiHAPhx4VxYoT1i9ldWgNS60vHqKkcJ/mfDYjH09AK+iCbqIBcRWOtClZFRjBOwRXnW8TeTYDxl/d4Szl4dy/BWvZHSEmbTFRw6RmVW5pi2FqRvAEjn97/8/k= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:29:04 -0700 From: Jared Still To: Tim Onions Subject: Re: RMAN, v$session_longops and Ora-03113 Cc: Oracle-L@freelists.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 19881 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jkstill@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: jkstill@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR autolearn=no version=2.63 Ah, thanks, I didn't know that. Or, if I ever did, I forgot. :) On 5/18/05, Tim Onions wrote: > > Jared > > RMAN uses v$session_longops to record it's progress. After each backup set > it uses the DBMS package to update "progress" in the V$ view, having first > queried out of the view to find some relevant data within . So when the > view > goes "bad" RMAN does its initial backup set/piece, trys to update > v$session_longops and subsequently gets an Ora-03113 error and dies. > Hence, > the backup "fails" inasmuch as it did not run to completion. I reality we > get less than 10% of our Db backed-up when this problem is in force. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l