Oracle DBA, How To, Error, Cause and Action

ORA-00234: error in identifying or opening snapshot or copy control file

ORA-00234: error in identifying or opening snapshot or copy control file




Cause: A snapshot or copy control file of the specified name could not be found or opened during an invocation of cfileUseSnapshot, cfileMakeAndUseSnapshot, or cfileUseCopy.




Action: Re-create the snapshot or copy control file using cfileMakeAndUseSnapshot or ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE, respectively.