Recently had an issue with an Oracle (11g) Scheduled Backup Job which had worked fine for a long time but started failing with the error "Initialization Error" when executing the RMAN script.
|
Name |
Targets |
Status |
Started |
Ended |
Elapsed Time (seconds) |
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Execution: orcl01.server.local
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orcl01.server.local |
Initialization Error |
07-Jul-2017 14:43:04 (UTC+01:00) |
07-Jul-2017 14:46:09 (UTC+01:00) |
185 |
|
Step: Initialize
|
orcl01.server.local |
Succeeded |
07-Jul-2017 12:00:16 BST |
07-Jul-2017 12:00:18 BST |
2 |
|
Step: Run RMAN Script
|
orcl01.server.local |
Initialization Error |
07-Jul-2017 14:43:09 BST |
07-Jul-2017 14:46:09 BST |
180 |
Restarting the server fixed the issue but is not ideal for a production machine.
Some Googling turned up a similar issue on an Oracle Community Forum (https://community.oracle.com/thread/1036886?db=5). As suggested in the post restarting the Oracle DB Console service fixed the issue without restarting the whole server.