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Re: ORA-00600 problem with restored backups

From: boo <boo_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:42:23 -0800
Message-ID: <388D0D8F.16265626@yahoo.com>


Also, it's not specified in your post, but hopefully you aren't taking all of your tablespaces into hotbackup mode at the same time. They should be done one at a time.

decompton_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <86hrr0$apc$1_at_hume.nmia.com>,
> greg_at_nmia.com (Gregory Riggs) wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are trying to verify that we can restore our production database
> from our
> > nightly hot backup tapes. We have Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.2.3.1
> running on
> > OpenVMS VAX V7.1, which is nolonger supported by Oracle, but due to
> the legacy
> > software we are using, we can not upgrade Oracle.
> >
> > When we load the database from tape onto a different, but identically
> > configured VAX (the same version Oracle and OpenVMS), the database
> mounts,
> > recovers, and opens without any errors. However, when we try and
> select from
> > some of the tables we get the following Oracle error:
> >
> > SELECT COUNT(*) FROM <some_table>;
> >
> > ERROR:
> > ORA-00081: address range [1024, 5120) is not readable
> > ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [4146], [225], [222], [],
> [], [],
> > [], []
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what this error might indicate or
> suggestions of
> > something we could try?
> >
> > The database is needed 24 hours/day, so each night we make a hot
> backup of the
> > database to tape. We put all the table spaces into backup mode with
> "ALTER
> > TABLESPACE <tablespace_name> BEGIN BACKUP;" before backing up the
> data files
> > '*.DBS' , redo log files '*.RDO', and control files '*.CON'. After
> this, we
> > then take all table spaces out of backup mode with "ALTER TABLESPACE
> > <tablespace_name> END BACKUP;", issue "ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;",
> and then
> > backup all the arhcive files '*.ARC' since the previous night's hot
> backup. To
> > restore the database, we restore the backed up files to the other
> server, and
> > issue "STARTUP MOUNT <name>;", "RECOVER DATABASE;", and "ALTER
> DATABASE OPEN;"
> >
> > We've tried restoring the database from about a weeks worth of
> nightly backup
> > tapes, but always get the same internal error code problem.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance!
> > Greg Riggs
> > greg_at_nmia.com
> >
> >
> You have a couple of errors in how you backup. First, to backup a
> controlfile you MUST issue the command:

>

> alter database back controlfile to 'filedest';
>

> Also, in a hot backup, you should not backup the online redo logs.
> They will be useless and possible corrupt.
>

> thanks,
>

> dave
>

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Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 20:42:23 CST

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