Ran into a offline backup that took too long and went outside of the blackout.
A little querieng against the V$SESSION_LONGOPS told me it would take prox. another 3.8 hrs to finish.
Not something you want to wait for @ 02:00 am.
This is a 9i database (9.2.08) in archivelog mode, mounted an’ all.
All it took was a: “alter database open” and the offline backup transformed into a online version.
Starting backup at 01-FEB-09 using channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: starting full datafile backupset channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset including current controlfile in backupset channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: starting piece 1 at 01-FEB-09 channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: finished piece 1 at 01-FEB-09 piece handle=coldincr0_ctrfile_tsm_tapepool_******01_19072_1_677658225 comment=A channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:03 Finished backup at 01-FEB-09 Recovery Manager complete.
The first line of the logging was in offline mode, the rest in online mode.
Seeing, as there are no ORA-*****/RMAN-*****, i’ll take that as a mission completed.
NEXT… !