You should now run a test to determine how much damage this file has sustained. If its just one bad block, and it appears empty, then the damage is minimal. Because you have a RMAN setting (probably default) that says "stop after 1 bad block" you do not know the scope of the damage. Your first step is Metalink technote 28814.1 and also 283053.1 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dba1 mcc Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:11 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RMAN backup and get bad block error messages? we have ORACLE 11G on LINUX server. We just created a new EBS system and perform the database backup. When I do "cold backup" and "hot backup", there is NO error. While I perform RMAN backup and I got error messages: RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_DISK_1 channel at 07/29/2009 20:38:42 ORA-19566: exceeded limit of 0 corrupt blocks for file /u/EBS/EBSDB01/db/apps_st/data/system04.dbf Alter.log also have messages: Hex dump of (file 352, block 165656) in trace file /u/EBS/EBSDB01/db/tech_st/11.1.0/admin/XXX/diag/rdbms/ebsdb01/EBSDB01/tr ace/EBSDB01_ora_6824.trc Corrupt block relative dba: 0x58028718 (file 352, block 165656) Completely zero block found during backing up datafile Reread of blocknum=165656, file=/u/EBS/EBSDB01/db/apps_st/data/system04.dbf. found same corrupt data My question are: 1. Why "cold backup" and "hot backup" Not complain, but RMAN complain? 2. how to fix this bad block without lost data? Thanks. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l