Wolfgang, I have recently been looking at what types of corruption RMAN notices and how it reports them. I used dd and BBED to experiment with = intentional block corruption in 9.2.0.6/HP-UX 11.11. I have not had the time to conclude all the trials I want but BBED only = marks=20 a block "FRACTURED" as seen in V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION after RMAN's "BACKUP VALIDATE CHECK LOGICAL DATABASE" is run. =20 For this type of corruption RMAN does NOT fail with an error after = backup=20 validation: it logs an entry to the alert log and inserts rows into=20 V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION and V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION. Alert log would = show such intentionally fractured block in the alert log as: "Bad header found during backing up datafile" without the usual "ORA-XXX". RMAN behaved differently in a recent case where corrupted block was reported in alert log as: "Bad header found during buffer read" In that case RMAN failed with "ORA-19566: exceeded limit of 0 corrupt = blocks for file". It was also reported with "ORA-XXX" into the alert log. Unfortunately, = I don't have=20 details on how it was reported in V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION. I think it's important to know what kind of corruption RMAN can and = cannot report without the need to add auto monitoring of the alert log beyond = the standard "ORA-XXX" strings. What I want to figure out conclusively by simulation is how RMAN reports = the=20 other four types of corruption (as seen in V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION): ALL ZERO, CHECKSUM, CORRUPT, LOGICAL I will share my findings when I'm done, but in the meantime, I would = welcome your comments if you have any. Cheers, Slava Zayarny Oracle DBA ----------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:43:24 -0600 From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: How can I get the BBED password? I have used it to deliberately corrupt a block to find out how RMAN=20 report block corruptions. Of course there are other ways to corrupt=20 blocks but it seemed like a good excuse to build and use bbed. Guerra, Abraham J wrote: > Hello Tanel, >=20 > Have you used the utility? If so, did you discover the password or = =3D > somebody else told it to you? >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > Abraham >=20 --=20 Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l