RMAN (9i onwards) ONLINE BLOCK CORRUPTION FIX:

From 9i onwards you can use RMAN to recover only blocks while database
is up and running.

This could possibly save hours and hours of recovery time as a full
database restore is not necessary.

Error reported by user pointing to block corruption.

An error encountered in Populate MACS DATA process.

The Error - Source : POPULATE_MACSDATA - ORA-01578: ORACLE data block
corrupted (file # 48, block # 142713)
ORA-01110: data file 48:
'/hqlinux08db06/ORACLE/macsl/MACSDAT_2006_06.dbf'
ORA-02063: preceding 2 lines from MODSL_MACSL_LINK
File name : /hqlinux08db06/ORACLE/macsl/MACSDAT_2006_06.dbf

Check first if the there is only one(few) blocks corrupted or most of

the blocks are corrupted.

macsl:/opt/oracle/admin/macsl/bdump>

Issue command below at UNIX prompt.

dbv file=/hqlinux08db06/ORACLE/macsl/MACSDAT_2006_06.dbf BLOCKSIZE=8192

LOGFILE=test.log

DBVERIFY: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Oct 4 14:28:37 2006

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
DBV-00200: Block, dba 201469305, already marked corrupted

macsl:/opt/oracle/admin/macsl/bdump> vi test.log
DBVERIFY: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Oct 4 14:28:37 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
DBVERIFY - Verification starting : FILE =
/hqlinux08db06/ORACLE/macsl/MACSDAT_2006_06.dbf
DBVERIFY - Verification complete
Total Pages Examined : 262144
Total Pages Processed (Data) : 218615
Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0
Total Pages Processed (Index): 0
Total Pages Failing (Index): 0
Total Pages Processed (Other): 22422
Total Pages Processed (Seg) : 0
Total Pages Failing (Seg) : 0
Total Pages Empty : 21107
Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 1
Total Pages Influx : 0
Highest block SCN : 2550111754 (1040.2550111754)

You can get the list of corrupted blocks from

v$database_block_corruption

Select * from v$database_block_corruption;

You will get block number corrupt.
Ex: block 142713.

After that LOGIN TO RMAN.

macsl:/opt/oracle/admin/macsl/bdump> rman target / catalog

rman10/rman10@rman10p
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Oct 4 14:33:26
2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: MACSL (DBID=1125502194)
connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> blockrecover datafile 48 block 142713;

Starting blockrecover at 04-OCT-06

allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_1
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: sid=119 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle: version
5.2.0.0
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=131 devtype=DISK

channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restoring block(s)

channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: specifying block(s) to restore from backup set
restoring blocks of datafile 00048
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: reading from backup piece
MACSL.20061004.7379.1.1.602899473
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restored block(s) from backup piece 1
piece handle=MACSL.20061004.7379.1.1.602899473 tag=TAG20061003T222108
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: reading from backup piece
MACSL.20061004.7379.2.1.602899473
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: restored block(s) from backup piece 2
piece handle=MACSL.20061004.7379.2.1.602899473 tag=TAG20061003T222108
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: block restore complete, elapsed time: 00:04:01

starting media recovery

media recovery complete, elapsed time: 00:00:46

Finished blockrecover at 04-OCT-06

Additional information:

V$database_block_corruption is the view to check the list of corrupted

blocks.

If you have multiple block list as corrupt, You can use single command
to recover them.

RMAN> BLOCKRECOVER corruption list;

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