7.97 V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION

V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION displays information about corrupt block ranges in data file backups from the control file.

Note that corruptions are not tolerated in the control file and archived redo log backups.

Column Datatype Description

RECID

NUMBER

Backup corruption record ID

STAMP

NUMBER

Backup corruption record stamp

SET_STAMP

NUMBER

Backup set stamp

SET_COUNT

NUMBER

Backup set count

PIECE#

NUMBER

backup piece that contains this corrupt block

FILE#

NUMBER

Absolute file number of the data file that contains the corrupt blocks

BLOCK#

NUMBER

Block number of the first corrupt block in the range of corrupted blocks

BLOCKS

NUMBER

Number of corrupted blocks found starting with BLOCK#

CORRUPTION_CHANGE#

NUMBER

Change number at which the logical corruption was detected. Set to 0 to indicate media corruption.

MARKED_CORRUPT

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether this corruption was not previously detected by the Oracle Database (YES) or the Oracle Database had already discovered this corrupt block and marked it as corrupt (NO). Note that when a corrupt block is encountered in a backup, and was not already marked corrupt by the Oracle Database, then the backup process does not mark the block as corrupt in the production data file. Thus, this field may be YES for the same block in more than one backup set.

CORRUPTION_TYPE

VARCHAR2(9)

Type of block corruption in the data file:

  • ALL ZERO - Block header on disk contained only zeros. The block may be valid if it was never filled and if it is in an Oracle7 file. The buffer will be reformatted to the Oracle8 standard for an empty block.

  • FRACTURED - Block header looks reasonable, but the front and back of the block are different versions.

  • CHECKSUM - optional check value shows that the block is not self-consistent. It is impossible to determine exactly why the check value fails, but it probably fails because sectors in the middle of the block are from different versions.

  • CORRUPT - Block is wrongly identified or is not a data block (for example, the data block address is missing)

  • LOGICAL - Block is logically corrupt

  • NOLOGGING - Block does not have redo log entries (for example, NOLOGGING operations on primary database can introduce this type of corruption on a physical standby)

CON_ID

NUMBER

The ID of the container to which the data pertains. Possible values include:

  • 0: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to the entire CDB. This value is also used for rows in non-CDBs.

  • 1: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to only the root

  • n: Where n is the applicable container ID for the rows containing data