Backup of Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) database fails with an error: RMAN-06059: expected archived log not found
Problem
Backup of Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) database fails with an error: RMAN-06059: expected archived log not found
Error Message
Backup of Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) database(s) fails with the above error message and the following RMAN output:
Starting backup
current log archived
released channel: t1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 14:24:55
RMAN-06059: expected archived log not found, lost of archived log
compromises recoverability
ORA-19625: error identifying file /u02/oradata/scr9/archive/1_1160.dbf
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Solution
RMAN is looking for an archived log that is missing. Running the following command will perform a cross check of the log files and delete the reference to the lost file and will skip that log file during the backup process.
Login to the database server and invoke RMAN
$rman target /
RMAN>change archivelog all crosscheck;
Rerun the backup after the above command is completed successfully.
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