ORA-1537 ORA-3280 Reported For Create Tablespace When Runing DataPump Import

(Doc ID 1351252.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 09, 2011

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.2 - Release: 11.2 to 11.2
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Full DataPump import shows the errors below while creating the tablespaces:

ORA-39083: Object type TABLESPACE failed to create with error:
ORA-01537: cannot add file '/QLFLNG11_1/redo/redo04.log' - file already part of database
SQL statement: CREATE TABLESPACE "BDM_DATA" DATAFILE '/QLFLNG11_1/redo/redo04.log' SIZE 106496 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 65536 MAXSIZE 32767M,'/QLFLNG11_2/redo/redo04.log' SIZE 106496 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT  65536 MAXSIZE 32767M, SIZE 106496 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 65536 MAXSIZE 32767M;

or:

ORA-39083: Object type TABLESPACE failed to create with error:
ORA-03280: invalid DATAFILE filename specified
Failing sql is:
CREATE TABLESPACE "TOOLS" DATAFILE
'/redo_m2/alis1/redo08_3.log' SIZE 10485760,
'/redo_m/alis1/redo08_2.log' SIZE 10485760,
'/redo/alis1/redo08_1.log' SIZE 10485760,
'' SIZE 10485760,

Checking the tablespace definition with dbms_metadata.get_ddl in the source database:

SQL> connect / as sysdba
SQL> set pagesize 50 long 20000
SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl ('TABLESPACE', 'BDM_DATA') from dual;

DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLESPACE','BDM_DATA')
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CREATE TABLESPACE "BDM_DATA"
DATAFILE '/QLFLNG11_1/redo/redo04.log' SIZE 106496 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 65536 MAXSIZE 32767M, '/QLFLNG11_2/redo/redo04.log' SIZE 106496 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 65536 MAXSIZE 32767M, SIZE 106496 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 65536 MAXSIZE 32767M LOGGING ONLINE
PERMANENT BLOCKSIZE 8192 EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE DEFAULT NOCOMPRESS
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;

But for this tablespace, the data dictionary views show different information:

SQL> select FILE_NAME, STATUS from dba_data_files where TABLESPACE_NAME = 'BDM_DATA';

FILE_NAME                                                  STATUS
---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------
/QLFLNG11_1/QLFLNG11/datafile/o1_mf_bdm_data_72zrk0tm_.dbf AVAILABLE  

Cause

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