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BR0069E File name not unique – backup/verification impossible

BR0069E File name not unique – backup/verification impossible

Hi friends, recently due to some issue with our backup client, we have to take backup of sap database to disk. But brtools comes up with a error:

BR0069E File name /oracle/LAD/sapdata2/undo_3/undo.data3 not unique – backup/verification not possible

BR0069E File name /oracle/LAD/sapdata10/undo/undo.data3 not unique – backup/verification not possible

We are doing the backup of this sap database regularly through our backup client, and never face the above issue, so I start finding RCA for this issue, and it’s found that it is due to the following reason:

Because the file name is not unique, files in the backup directory could be overwritten (during a backup to disk).
Program reaction: The BRBACKUP run is terminated.

Solution:

Step1)– Stop the Database.

Step2)– Rename the file at operating system level. I will recommend to take backup of current file, then use mv command.

Step3)– Connect Database with sqlplus.

File name not unique - backup/verification impossible

Step4)– Start the database in mount mode using below command.

startup mount

Step5)– Use below command to alter datafile.

alter database rename file '/oracle/LAD/sapdata2/undo_3/undo.data3' to '/oracle/LAD/sapdata2/undo_3/undo.newdata3'

Step6)– Now open it with the alter database open command as seen in this example:

 alter database open 

Step7)– Now again execute brtools, and your error is gone now.