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OpenVMS: ALTER TABLESPACE END BACKUP reports ORA-27041: unable to open file (Doc ID 245384.1)

Last updated on APRIL 16, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 and later
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 Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
HP OpenVMS Alpha

Symptoms

 symptom: ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespacename> BEGIN BACKUP fails
symptom: ORA-01116 error in opening datafile <name >
symptom: ORA-01110: datafile <name>
symptom: ORA-27041: unable to open file
symptom: RMS-F-CHN, assign channel system service request failed
symptom: The STATUS column in V$BACKUP shows 'CANNOT READ HEADER'
symptom: The STATUS column in V$DATAFILE_HEADER shows 'CANNOT READ HEADER'

Changes

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Cause

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