Re: block corruption during flashcopy on ibm fastt san storage

Bud wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> we tried to do an online copy of our oracle 9.2.0.7 database on a ibm fastT
> san storage.
>
> Allthoug we put the database in backup mode we were facing block
> corruptions.
>
> The copy was done with the ibm onboard flashcopy utility (enabling physical
> snapshots) !
>
>
> Any ideas what could went wrong ?
>

Did you recover the db? Backup mode is an inconsistent backup which needs to be made consistent. Extra redo is generated to help with this. Please tell us exactly what you did, including how you handled the logs and archiving. Please tell what said there were corruptions and what exactly did it say.

jg

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