Re: Converting from raw to filesystem

  • From: "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <fuadar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:04:12 +0100

thisis what i get after the plain dd
dd if=/dev/rvdsystem01 of=/usr/local/oracle/database/tempdb01/system01.dbf
SQL> alter database open;
alter database open
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01122: database file 1 failed verification check
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/usr/local/oracle/database/tempdb01/system01.dbf'
ORA-01251: Unknown File Header Version read for file number 1

I've always used the bs option(bs=1048576 in my case):

    bs=n  Set both input and output  block  sizes  to  n  bytes,
          superseding ibs= and obs=. If no conversion other than
          sync, noerror, and notrunc is  specified,  each  input
          block  will  be copied to the output as a single block
          without aggregating short blocks.

Example:

dd if=/dev/vx/rdsk/... of=/u01/oracle/... bs=1048576


And I found this on MetaLink:

ORA-1251
Text: Unknown File Header Version read for file number %s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cause: Read of the file header returned a record but its version cannot be identified. Either the header has been corrupted, or the file is not a valid database file.
Action: Have the operating system make the correct file available to the database, or recover the file.


If you have a backup please restore the backup and retry the operation.Make sure you have specified like the following:
dd if=/dev/xxx of=/a/spdevs04/ibmfs/osupport/yyy bs=4096 skip=1


Reference:
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Note:1027958.6 MPP: (UNIX) COPYING RAW DEVICE TO FILE SYSTEM USING DD
COMMAND


Regards,
Dimitre


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