Backup / Restore configuration

Customer does a (xml) backup of a UCS domain with 4 chassis; then he erases the configuration, does a inital setup and then a restore.
He was quite surprised, that the numbering of the chassis has been changed ?
Has this something to do with the flag "preserve identities", which he forgot to tick ?

Yup, always use "preserve identities" if you might have to restore from the xml file. It's not needed if you want to create a "gold image" to push to other Interconnects.....

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Hi Team,
I am new to the RMAN, I want to test Backup & restore operation
I have database called Test , I am creating new table in the database called Test_table through SQL *coPlus create mmand.
Now After this I am taking backup the of all cotrolfile , datafile & snapshot file.
once again I am opening this database in SQL *plus & deleted the table (Test_table).
Now if restore back the database with backup set taken before deleting table. It is not showing me the Test_table.
What is the problem? Plz help..

Hi,
Thanks for replay,
Using Windows XP & ORACLE 9i
I am doing following steps.
Created one table ( Test_table ) in database my Test database.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>rman
Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
RMAN> connect target system/sreedhar@Test;
connected to target database: Test (DBID=1558624384)
RMAN> show all;
using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 'C:\Testing\CTL_
%F';
configuration for DISK channel 2 is ignored
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT 'C:\Testing\DBF_%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT 'C:\RmanBack\std_%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT 'C:\Testing\CHA_Dev_%U_%S_%P';
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO 'C:\TESTING\SNCFTest.ORA';
RMAN> backup database;
Starting backup at 06-OCT-06
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=9 devtype=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00001 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\SYSTEM01.DBF
input datafile fno=00002 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\UNDOTBS01.DBF
input datafile fno=00005 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\EXAMPLE01.DBF
input datafile fno=00010 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\XDB01.DBF
input datafile fno=00006 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\INDX01.DBF
input datafile fno=00009 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\USERS01.DBF
input datafile fno=00003 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\CWMLITE01.DBF
input datafile fno=00004 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\DRSYS01.DBF
input datafile fno=00007 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\ODM01.DBF
input datafile fno=00008 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\TOOLS01.DBF
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 06-OCT-06
channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 06-OCT-06
piece handle=C:\TESTING\DBF_0QHV5L4T_1_1 comment=NONE
channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:01:05
Finished backup at 06-OCT-06
Starting Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 06-OCT-06
piece handle=C:\TESTING\CTL_C-1558624384-20061006-01 comment=NONE
Finished Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 06-OCT-06
RMAN> exit
Recovery Manager complete.
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Also deleted the all .DBF files from Test folder. and I am restoring now the old backup set which has the information regarding the Test_table.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>rman
Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
RMAN> connect target system/sreedhar@Test;
connected to target database (not started)
RMAN> startup mount;
Oracle instance started
database mounted
Total System Global Area 252779340 bytes
Fixed Size 453452 bytes
Variable Size 125829120 bytes
Database Buffers 125829120 bytes
Redo Buffers 667648 bytes
RMAN> show all;
using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 'C:\Testing\CTL_
%F';
configuration for DISK channel 2 is ignored
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT 'C:\Testing\DBF_%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT 'C:\RmanBack\std_%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT 'C:\Testing\CHA_Dev_%U_%S_%P';
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO 'C:\TESTING\SNCFTest.ORA';
RMAN> restore database;
Starting restore at 06-OCT-06
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=11 devtype=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backupset restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
restoring datafile 00001 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\SYSTEM01.DBF
restoring datafile 00002 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\UNDOTBS01.DBF
restoring datafile 00003 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\CWMLITE01.DBF
restoring datafile 00004 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\DRSYS01.DBF
restoring datafile 00005 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\EXAMPLE01.DBF
restoring datafile 00006 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\INDX01.DBF
restoring datafile 00007 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\ODM01.DBF
restoring datafile 00008 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\TOOLS01.DBF
restoring datafile 00009 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\USERS01.DBF
restoring datafile 00010 to C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\Test\XDB01.DBF
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
piece handle=C:\TESTING\DBF_0QHV5L4T_1_1 tag=TAG20061006T122500 params=NULL
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete
Finished restore at 06-OCT-06
RMAN> recover database;
Starting recover at 06-OCT-06
using channel ORA_DISK_1
starting media recovery
media recovery complete
Finished recover at 06-OCT-06
RMAN> exit
Recovery Manager complete.
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System Copy/ Oracle Backup/Restore as part of migrating from 32 to 64-bit

Source system (I386): R3E47 Ext Set 2.00 SAP_BASIS 620 Kernel 640 Windows 2000, Oracle 10.2.0.4, non-unicode
Target system (x86-64/AMD64): R3E47 Ext Set 2.00 SAP_BASIS 620 Kernel 640 Windows 2000 Oracle 10.2.0.4, non-unicode
Am using method System Copy/ Oracle Backup/Restore to migrate from 32 to 64 bit (HOM System Copy).
Actions on source system:
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b) Used ora_br_copy.bat to generate CONTROL.SQL and init<sid>.ora
c) Switched logfiles
d) Performed offline backup
Actions on target system:
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c) Started installation of the DB instance selecting System Copy/ Oracle Backup/Restore (same <SID> for source and target systems)
Relevant input parameters used:
Database schema: SAPR3
Database character set: US7ASCII
d) When SAPINST stopped to allow for restoring of datafiles, logs and init<sid.ora>:
- copied datafiles and logs to the usual place
- copied CONTROL.SQL (edited to include utilrp.sql and utlrp.sql for the migration from 32 to 64) to the DB-instance intallation . directory.
- copied generated init<SID>.ora to the <ORACLE_HOME>\database
e) Resumed SAPINST.
David Byrne in a previous post suggested: "check your oracle alert file in case there are errors there you may need to update the word size for the 64bit install. Errors like this in the oracle alert file would suggest that.,
ORA-12012
ORA-06544: PL/SQL: internal error, arguments: [ORA-06544: PL/SQL: internal error, arguments: 56319], [, ], [, ], [, ], [
ORA-06553"
Well, I am getting ORA-06553: PLS-801: internal error [56319] but then my edited CONTROL.SQL (which is mainly a CREATE CONTROLFILE as it would be obtained with a ...BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE) includes at the end this:
shutdown immediate
startup upgrade
spool utlirp.log
@?/rdbms/admin/utlirp.sql
spool off
Shutdown immediate
Startup
Spool utlrp.log
@?/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
Spool off
exit
which is supposed to do just that... (I think)
Help, anyone?

> Trying to cheer me up, are you?
No
> It is NOT free that reorganization! Quite expensive, actually, paid for in time! But you're right... the database needed a reorg anyway :-\
True, not "free" - it takes time but the data will be nicely aligned then
> And why would I have to reconfigure all those 10.2 features? Everything's either in the database or init<sid>.ora, ain't it? And my database is a pretty 10.2.0.4 with all those nice features already activated...
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> One sticky point... I haven't really read the r3load procedure yet and I will before I import, but... I would say I don't have to do anything about the 32->64 bit, right? I mean, it should behave properly while reloading on 64-bit...
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Markus

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Hi everybody,
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My workout for you is as follows (assuming, you configured tnsnames pointing to the listener concern with your database)...
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
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Hi All,
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hi,
1) First you have to change db2 configuration parameter in DB.
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SPA122, "Restore Configuration" not working.

Hi,
I can't restore .cfg files on the Config Management menu. The "browse" button
is not active and i can't load a file. The firmware version is 1.3.1. Tested with Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome
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Well, i saved my configuration with the config manager, do one RESET with the phone (73738#). Logon on the PC with 192.168.15.1 (Yellow LAN port). And the restore configuration is active! But when i restore my .cfg file the SPA122 don't work well. The VoIP line is working but the PC connected to the yellow LAN does not work, can't get IP address (0.0.0.0).
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Make a backup/restore of an user in Beehive

It it possible to make a backup/restore(mailbox) of an user in Beehive?

Hello Miguel,
Well, you need place for your backup - You can say me that you store them on tapes it's less expensive than on disk - that's right it's also less efficient and quick if you have to restore your environment. You can use a dev/test environment for that - no need to install the same hardware (cpu/mem) or the same architecture - you "just" need the same space disk -
Moreover, you will install only one the machine/os/rdbms and beehive as well as the local PC.
When an user delete a mail, it is still on the trash - so whatever the client used it can recover it from there. Just configure your client to avoid to empty the trash on exit.
There are other solutions, like set up a Data Guard and apply a delay on archivelog application - all is function of your retention policy and until when on the past you accept to recover an email
Not sure to follow you, when you say that storing the wastebasket on the server will reduce you the the probabilities of having to retrieve an email from the backup. Outlook and Zimbra have the same trash folder, so for example if I delete a mail on Outlook it goes on the trash. I can see it on Zimbra & on Outlook trash folder. Now if I purge my trash you won't be able to retrieve it neither on Outlook nor on Zimbra.
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(B/R), things need to make sense.
Q1: I have a machine that is configured with three (3) accounts: one is a privileged account (admin), and the other two are normal non-privileged accounts (acct1 and acct2 for reference purposes). I perform the backup from the admin account, backing
up the entire machine (all accounts). The backup completes without error. If I then Restore Files to view what was saved, I am shown the admin account, and acct1 as available to restore. Acct2 is not visible! Why not? Am I not
allowed to restore this account as admin? If it is a permissions issue, then why can I see and select acct1? If I logout of admin and login to acct2, and run B/R from there, the admin and acct2 backups are visible, but not acct1. So I know
the data got backed up, but why am I not able to see all the backup accounts when running as admin? If I had a machine with 15 accounts, does this mean I would have to login to each account to restore its files when rebuilding after losing a drive?
Q2: Backups are tagged by date. If I run B/R daily, it appears that the backup is retagged with a date range. If I wait a number of days to perform the second backup, I may get a second backup entry with the new date. What algorithm is
being used to determine when to extend a backup, and when to create a new entry? Is there a trigger that I can use that will force the creation of new entry, and not extend an existing entry, or vice-versa?
Q3: Everything suggests that with multiple backups, the oldest backup represents a full set of files, and subsequent backups are incremental. Exactly what is meant by incremental. I would expect this to mean that any file that has not changed
since the last time it was backed up would not be part of a new backup. Or stated the other way, any file that has changed since the last time it was backed up would be part of the new incremental backup. If I have 4 backups, will B/R examine all
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will a subsequent backup operation resave all my old files that have not changed since the first backup but are now missing from the backup set (I assume so)? If so, then any space gained by deleting the original backup will disappear after the new incremental
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Hi,
First question, I'm sorry for never heard this problem, I would made a test in our test enviroment, After that, I would provide the result at here.
For other questions , I would like to suggest you read the link below for some details about system backup.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.backup.aspx
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

E71 Backup/Restore problem after firmware update

after i restore the data using the PC suite, I'm facing a connectivity problem, No MMS and web browsing are working, even after i re-install the settings from the provider and setup wizard, same thing, even the wireless connectivity is not working.
note that they are working be4 i do the restore (plain phone).
any recommendation.
It's never too late to learn ....

I upgraded my firmware (why do nokia call it 'software'?), which i kind of regret now. I don't see any difference to my phone, plus i hit a major problem.
Before upgrading i backed-up my phone.
After upgrading firmware i tried to restore the backup to my phone - wouldn't work!?!?!?!?! - plus the phone said that i had a massive error and had to take my phone back to retailer. it would not restart.
Seriously crazy
FIX:
'Hard-reset' the phone (erases memory and takes you back to basic nokia phone software) - While turning the phone on you hold down 3 buttons: " green-phone & 3 & * ". Hold down for about 10 sec's. The phone should start working again with the new firmware - albeit with only basic settings.
Go to the backup-restore, and restore from your last backup.
HOWEVER, UNTICK 'phone settings'.
This should get almost everything back for you (calendar,contacts,etc), except for any software that you had previously downloaded and installed on your phone (e.g. google maps, fring, skype, youtube, etc). Easy enough to download & install again. Also, you might want to ring your phone company and get them to mms you the configuration settings for internet and mms again.
WHY WAS THERE A PROBLEM? I believe that the old settings of the previous firmware are NOT compatible with the new firmware. This makes the phone effectively stop working when you restore the backup.

PC Suite 6.81.13 - Backup/Restore

So - I've got the new PC Suite..
Tried to Backup - it gets to 100% and then does nothing..
Just stays there!
Doesnt actually finish backing up..
Anyone else having this problem?
Yup, life sure moves pretty fast...

"backup and restore meant for transfering data in the same phone model to another phone of the same model as well"
That's the information I got when I call up the customer service because I have problem transfering data in Nokia 6230i into Nokia 6233...since I've no idea whether to use backup/restore or sync. (I talk to four different guy and four of them doesn't advise the same thing...it's like they teach according to their personal experience and not something by default...I wonder why izzit so.)
Backup completed at 100% with error that some data could not be backup due to right protected i.e. theme, tone. Fine with that, I proceed with restore but serious error pop up when i just click RESTORE. There are big memory in N6233 but unfortunately nothing could be restore due to lack of memory. Huh? So, I called nokia service and I was told the it happened because configuration in both phones differs...(Then, why I was advised to use backup/restore feature?)
So, I sync. I think it works out ok but just hmm...not satisfied coz items like photos, mp3 etc. have to be transfer from N6230i phone browser to a folder in My Doc, and then when N6233 is connected, transfer it all into N6233 phone browser. I can live with that but the contact part! Phew! N6230i phonebook has got some contacts (say M,N,O and P), it was not transfer to N6233 thru sync. So, I thought try look in the phone browser BUT IT'S NOT THERE, how could that be possible?
Kinda tired about this thing...continue later...Lastly, though the software kinda break my neck, thanz to all the advises given today. Really appreaciate that though it doesn't turn out that good.
Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2
Nokia PC Suite 6.81.13.0
Cable connection

Backup & Restore non-administrators Group Policy Settings

Hi,
I'm trying to setup a few reference images of Windows 7 which will be deployed to our client computers. The baseline Group Policies are configured through Local Group Policies set in the image. I've setup a Master GPO machine on which to build the policies
and test them.
The Local Group Policies have been set for Local Computer Configuration, Local User Configuration and for Local Non-Administrators Configuration. The thinking is that members of the local Administrators group on the computer are unrestricted and still have
the ability to do most things. Users which log onto the computer abide by the more restrictive Non-Administrators Group Policy settings.
Using the "LocalGPO.wsf" script I'm able to backup and restore Computer and User Configuration which affects all users of the machine but it does not backup the Non-Administrators Policies. Is this possible?
After some digging around in the "GPOPack.wsf" files I've found that the Machine & All Users Policies are restored by the "LocalPol.exe" file. This utility has command line switches for '-m' machine and '-u' user. So I'm guessing
that it's not possible to restore the Non-Administrators Policies?
For what it was worth I've tried copying the "Registry.pol" file from "%windir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers\S-1-5-32-545\User" folder on the GPO Master machine and placed the file in the same location on target computer. A test which had
one value set worked on the reference computer but when the policies were copied form the GPO Master machine, the target computer ignored all the settings.
Any ideas how to backup/restore Local Machine Non-Administrator Group Polices?
Thanks!

Not entirely sure of the specific policies you're dealing with, but you would typically use the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager to create GPO packs that you would then apply using the Apply Local GPO Package task sequence step in MDT.
I'd encourage you to look over the Applying Group Policy Object Packs section of the
Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.docx file in the MDT 2013 documentation for more details.
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Using OEM to backup/restore DB using EMC Avamar (3rd party)

Hi,
I'm trying to find a solution for using OEM to backup and restore DB using EMC Avamar software.
Normally, we can backup/restore DB using Avamar through RMAN CLI using scripts similar to the following:
connect target /
run {
configure controlfile autobackup on;
set controlfile autobackup format for device type sbt to 'CONTROLFILE.orcl.%F';
allocate channel c0 type sbt PARMS="SBT_LIBRARY=c:\PROGRA~1\avs\bin\orasbt64.dll" format '%d_%U';
send '"--prefix=11g/orcl/" "--flagfile=c:\flagfile\avtar-flags.txt" "--bindir=c:\PROGRA~1\avs\bin"';
backup database plus archivelog delete input;
release channel c0;
Where orasbt64.dll is the name of Avamar's 64bit library and flagfile contains some internal flags necessary for backup/restore operations.
Now, I want to use OEM for the same thing so, what I did was try to specify the Media Management Vendor Library Parameters under Backup Settings in OEM. I saved the following as the parameters:
"SBT_LIBRARY=c:\PROGRA~1\avs\bin\orasbt64.dll";
Even after this, the backup script generated by OEM does not contain this parameter. Naturally, backups to EMC Avamar fail.
I would like answers to these 2 questions:
1. How to correctly specify the Media Management Vendor Library Parameters?
2. Is there a way to specify all the parameters (--prefix, flagfile, bindir, PARMS etc.) so that the script generated by OEM is same (or as close as possible) to the one I use for RMAN CLI backups.
Thanks!

Hi Anant,
I'm also having the same issue. It fails because it doesn't understand the "send" command in OEM. Here is the output of the tape backup test:
RMAN> run {
2> allocate channel oem_sbt_backup type 'sbt_tape' format '%U' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/local/avamar/lib/libobk_avamar64.so,
3> ENV=(PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/avamar/bin);
4> send "--flagfile=/home/oracle/scripts/backup/my-avtar-flags.txt"';
5> backup as COMPRESSED BACKUPSET current controlfile tag '04302012033156';
6> restore controlfile validate from tag '04302012033156';
7> release channel oem_sbt_backup;
8> }
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on oem_sbt_backup channel at 04/30/2012 15:32:00
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27209: syntax error in device PARMS - unknown keyword or missing =
RMAN> allocate channel for maintenance type 'sbt_tape' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/local/avamar/lib/libobk_avamar64.so,
2> ENV=(PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/avamar/bin);
3> send "--flagfile=/home/oracle/scripts/backup/my-avtar-flags.txt"';
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on ORA_MAINT_SBT_TAPE_1 channel at 04/30/2012 15:32:01
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27209: syntax error in device PARMS - unknown keyword or missing =
When I use TSM it doesn't require the "send" command and it backs up successfully. I guess the other option would be to create an EM job to do the backups. However, this wouldn't populate the EM tables for backup reporting.

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