RMAN Backup Fails For Snapshot Controlfile File In Data Guard Environment
(Doc ID 1482014.1)
Last updated on JANUARY 17, 2023
Applies to:
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1.0 to 12.1.0.1 [Release 11.2 to 12.1]Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Symptoms
After executing a backup on standby site, sometimes, the snapshot controlfile is changed to the primary site configuration and next backup fails with:
RMAN error stack as below
RMAN-03009: failure of Control File and SPFILE Autobackup command on c1 channel at 05/22/2012 02:30:08
ORA-01580: error creating control backup file <path>/snapcf_xxxxx.f
ORA-17502: ksfdcre:4 Failed to create file <path>/snapcf_xxxxx.f
ORA-15173: entry 'xxxxx_zzz does not exist in directory '/'
Here DB_UNIQUE_NAME of primary DB is xxxxx_yyy and DB_UNIQUE_NAME of standby is xxxxx_zzz.
Backups ran fine using catalog from standby site but sometimes while taking snapshot controlfile it fails saying directory doesn't exist .
Cause
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