RMAN Backup in OCI Failing with ORA-28365: wallet is not open (Doc ID 2418134.1)

Last updated on MAY 21, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

RMAN archivelog backups are failing with errors:

RMAN> BACKUP archivelog ALL DELETE input;

Starting backup at 27-JUN-18
current log archived
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=212 device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting archived log backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying archived log(s) in backup set
input archived log thread=1 sequence=455 RECID=455 STAMP=976917802
input archived log thread=1 sequence=456 RECID=456 STAMP=977016612
[...]
input archived log thread=1 sequence=496 RECID=496 STAMP=979916821
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 27-JUN-18
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_DISK_1 channel at 06/27/2018 15:07:06
ORA-19914: unable to encrypt backup
ORA-28365: wallet is not open

Changes

Cause

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