On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Masha Gurenich <gurenich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, I went through the alert log - the database went down gracefully. No > crushing, no related to shutdown errors. > I also recreated the controlfile backing it up to trace again - the very > same thing. I am lost. Something is really wrong here.. > > Please, help me to brainstorm this annoying issue. I do not believe in magic > in IT. Please, throw any, ANY ideas (even the craziest) that might help to > track down the problem, because it's just getting ridiculous... > Hi, If you are sure that the copy command has been executed after "shutdown immediate" has been completed I think that next option is to check if all files has been copied without any issues. I have seen similar error when "shutdown immediate" command has been killed from OS level and this is why I'm always adding a additional check between shutdown immediate and copy command in cold backup script. You should think about checking a md5 sum for files too - ex. after copy process. Did you try recover database using backup controlfile test ? It should show you in which files you have a problem. regards -- Marcin Przepiorowski http://oracleprof.blogspot.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l