RMAN tape backup fail

Experts...
While executing full database backup using RMAN we are getting below set of exceptions,
RMAN> backup database;
Starting backup at 12-OCT-09
allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_1
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: sid=401 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 6.5 (20090430)
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: starting full datafile backupset
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00005 name=L:\LHECCDB\CCDB
input datafile fno=00002 name=L:\LHECCDB\UNDOTBS01.DBF
input datafile fno=00006 name=L:\LHECCDB\CCDBRMAN.ORA
input datafile fno=00001 name=L:\LHECCDB\SYSTEM01.DBF
input datafile fno=00003 name=L:\LHECCDB\SYSAUX01.DBF
input datafile fno=00004 name=L:\LHECCDB\USERS01.DBF
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: starting piece 1 at 12-OCT-09
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 channel at 10/12/2009 22
:30:10
ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="4", parms=""
ORA-27028: skgfqcre: sbtbackup returned error
ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
VxBSAValidateFeatureId: Failed with error:
Server Status: cannot connect on socket
Please help and guide where we are making mistake
Thanks,

That is an error from the MML. You may want to check http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/281296.htm.

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Error in RMAN TAPE BACKUP

Dear Gurus,
I got the following error in RMAN TAPE backup.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of delete command on default channel at 09/20/2011 02:36:58
ORA-15028: ASM file '+ASMFLASH/gcprod/archivelog/2011_09_15/thread_2_seq_55857.2176.761912673' not dropped; currently being accessed
RMAN>
Recovery Manager complete.my RMAN BACKUP Script is:
rman target sys/*****@gcprod1 nocatalog << EOF
spool log to $v_bdest/clean_catalog_TAPE.log append;
run {
allocate channel c1 type 'sbt_tape' parms
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
#crosscheck backupset;
#crosscheck copy;
#crosscheck archivelog all;
# included on 21Jan2011 at 9:18 PM
#delete noprompt expired backup;
delete noprompt obsolete;
#delete noprompt expired archivelog all;
# included on 21Jan2011 at 9:18 PM
release channel c1;
exit
EOFMy RMAN RETENTION POLICY IS:
RMAN> show all;
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 3 DAYS;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED;
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF;
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128';
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE;
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.1/db_1/dbs/snapcf_gcprod1.f';According to retention policy archivelogs of past 3 days should be present rest and all , i have written a script to delete and it is performing well from past 6 months, but now recently we got this error
we have enough archivelog space.
and the archive log pointing in this error is on 15th september archivelog.....today date is 20th september....
My archive log was stored in asm .... i went there and saw that still 15th september archivelogs are present there.
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Spfile restore from RMAN Tape backup to different server

Hi All,
First of all let me thank you to the forum from which I keep updating my knowledge on oracle.
I am having issues when trying to restore spfile from controlfile autobackup to different server. Problem and other details are below:
Target version : 10.2.0.2
Netbackup : 6.5.6
Taken the tape backup through rman on server ABC and trying to restore the spfile from controlfile autobackup to server XYZ. Tape backup has been taken today morning and trying restore now.
Both servers ABC and XYX have been added (as clients) to netbackup policy.
Below is the syntax I used for restoring spfile and getting error as mentioned.
RMAN> run {
2> set controlfile autobackup format for device type 'SBT_TAPE' to '%F';
3> allocate channel ch00 device type 'sbt_tape'
4> parms='ENV=(NB_ORA_SERV=Mediaserver,NB_ORA_CLIENT=XYZ)';
5> restore spfile to pfile '/oracle/product/10g/dbs/inittest.ora' from
6> autobackup maxseq 5 maxdays 3;
7> }
executing command: SET CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT
allocated channel: ch00
channel ch00: sid=36 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ch00: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 6.5 (2010042405)
Starting restore at 03-AUG-2011
channel ch00: looking for autobackup on day: 20110803
channel ch00: looking for autobackup on day: 20110802
channel ch00: looking for autobackup on day: 20110801
channel ch00: no autobackup in 3 days found
released channel: ch00
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
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RMAN-06172: no autobackup found or specified handle is not a valid copy or piece
Not sure where I am doing wrong. The same can be restored onto same host (I.E ABC) without any issues .
Request your help and guidance.
Thanks,
SSS

I don't know whether you can restore to a different server. The easier way should be
RMAN> restore spfile to pfile 'YOUR_PFILE_NAME' from autobackup;
then copy this to the new host.
Check this link
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Cloning DB on a different server from RMAN Tape backup

RDBMS version           : 11.2.0.2 on Solaris 10
Media Management Layer : Netbackup v7
I have done only backups to Tape. I have never done restore,recovery from Tape.
We have a production DB named NEHPROD running on server qualmh214. Every Monday morning an RMAN Full backup for NEHPROD is taken to Tape.
Production server : qualmh214        DB Name:NEHPROD
run
ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE';
SEND 'NB_ORA_CLIENT=qualmh214,NB_ORA_POLICY=qualmh214_rman,NB_ORA_SERV=qualmh238,NB_ORA_SCHED=Daily';
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Even If I do connect to the Tape media server, how can i get access to tape backups of another DB? In the RMAN run block you can't specify a DB name. Right?
Even if I get access to another DB's backup , How can i specify which Date's Full backup I need to use to restore ?

From qualmh199, how can I connect to the Tape Media server ?You have to allocate channels to tape & need to mention NB parameters as example below.
in RMAN script
ALLOCATE CHANNEL CH1 DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE PARMS 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so64';
SEND 'NB_ORA_SERV=<server.com>, NB_ORA_CLIENT=<target.server>';
Even If I do connect to the Tape media server, how can i get access to tape backups of another DB? In the RMAN run block you can't specify a DB name. Right?If the libraries are installed and you able to perform, you can go for either duplicate database or simple RMAN restore. You can mention other DB names also
Ex: duplicate target database to 'test';
Even if I get access to another DB's backup , How can i specify which Date's Full backup I need to use to restore ?You can mention TAG's if you are using RMAN restore.

RMAN LEVEL0 BACKUP FAIL

Use scripts to do level0 backup
scripts:
run {allocate channel c1 type disk;allocate channel c2 type disk;backup incremental level 0 tag 'level0' format='/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_%T_%s_%p.dbf' databaseinclude current controlfile;release channel c1;release channel c2;}
Backup failed. Below is the log information:
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Jul 2 23:30:09 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: PRIMARY0 (DBID=359019005)
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN> run {
2> allocate channel c1 type disk;
3> allocate channel c2 type disk;
4> backup incremental level 0 tag 'level0' format='/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_%T_%s_%p.dbf' database
5> include current controlfile;
6> release channel c1;
7> release channel c2;
8> }
9>
10>
allocated channel: c1
channel c1: sid=218 devtype=DISK
allocated channel: c2
channel c2: sid=279 devtype=DISK
Starting backup at 02-JUL-12
channel c1: starting incremental level 0 datafile backupset
channel c1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00004 name=/database/oracle/oradata/PRIMARY0/datafile/o1_mf_users_7b1my5cr_.dbf
input datafile fno=00010 name=/oradata/primary0/datafile/data02.dbf
channel c1: starting piece 1 at 02-JUL-12
channel c2: starting incremental level 0 datafile backupset
channel c2: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00005 name=/database/oracle/oradata/PRIMARY0/datafile/o1_mf_users_7b1mykwz_.dbf
input datafile fno=00011 name=/oradata/primary0/datafile/data03.dbf
channel c2: starting piece 1 at 02-JUL-12
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c2 channel at 07/03/2012 00:11:10
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3946992 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_20120627_1992_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
channel c2 disabled, job failed on it will be run on another channel
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c1 channel at 07/03/2012 01:54:26
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3986777 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_20120627_1991_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
channel c1 disabled, job failed on it will be run on another channel
released channel: c1
released channel: c2
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c2 channel at 07/03/2012 00:11:10
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3946992 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_20120627_1992_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c1 channel at 07/03/2012 01:54:26
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3986777 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_20120627_1991_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
Recovery Manager complete.
Could you please help check the reason?

Thank for your reply.
Yesterday I only modified the script.
Now the script is :
run {
allocate channel c1 type disk maxpiecesize 5120M;
allocate channel c2 type disk maxpiecesize 5120M;
backup incremental level 0 tag 'level0' format='/backup/nissandb2backup/bkp_%
T_%s_%p_%U' database
include current controlfile;
release channel c1;
release channel c2;
But still failed.The log is:
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jul 3 23:30:11 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: PRIMARY0 (DBID=359019005)
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN> run {
2> allocate channel c1 type disk maxpiecesize 5120M;
3> allocate channel c2 type disk maxpiecesize 5120M;
4> backup incremental level 0 tag 'level0' format='/backup/nissandb2backup/bk
p_%T_%s_%p_%U' database
5> include current controlfile;
6> release channel c1;
7> release channel c2;
8> }
9>
10>
allocated channel: c1
channel c1: sid=250 devtype=DISK
allocated channel: c2
channel c2: sid=245 devtype=DISK
Starting backup at 03-JUL-12
channel c1: starting incremental level 0 datafile backupset
channel c1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00004 name=/database/oracle/oradata/PRIMARY0/datafile/o1_m
f_users_7b1my5cr_.dbf
input datafile fno=00010 name=/oradata/primary0/datafile/data02.dbf
channel c1: starting piece 1 at 03-JUL-12
channel c2: starting incremental level 0 datafile backupset
channel c2: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00005 name=/database/oracle/oradata/PRIMARY0/datafile/o1_m
f_users_7b1mykwz_.dbf
input datafile fno=00011 name=/oradata/primary0/datafile/data03.dbf
channel c2: starting piece 1 at 03-JUL-12
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c2 channel at 07/04/2012 07:36:34
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3946992 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2ba
ckup/bkp_20120628_1994_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
channel c2 disabled, job failed on it will be run on another channel
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c1 channel at 07/04/2012 08:47:20
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3986905 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2ba
ckup/bkp_20120628_1993_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
channel c1 disabled, job failed on it will be run on another channel
released channel: c1
released channel: c2
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c2 channel at 07/04/2012 07:36:34
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3946992 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2ba
ckup/bkp_20120628_1994_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on c1 channel at 07/04/2012 08:47:20
ORA-19510: failed to set size of 3986905 blocks for file "/backup/nissandb2ba
ckup/bkp_20120628_1993_1.dbf" (blocksize=8192)
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 9
Recovery Manager complete.
Now I modify the rman parameter:
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; --> CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO 5G;
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Rman level0 backup failed

Hi All,
i have scheduled inc0 backup in of the tool on windows env which is backing up my db ervery sunday,but today when i checked out the log i found backup failed becaz of bellow errors...immediate reply is appretiate
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
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ORA-27072: File I/O error: write error on file "\\CNNKG-FP01\SHAREFILES\DATABASE\SSC\SSCR_7UKVHBU8_1_1.BAK", blockno 172929 (blocksize=8192)
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With warm Regards

We have exactly the same problem, we make daily backups from 40 databases on Windows servers and daily backups of archivelogs to a Windows server on the network. Every week we have 1 to 5 failures.
Oracle does not support backups to a server on the network, but it does work, most of the time.
On http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle.server/browse_thread/thread/fc37eb6827962c24/db9f251077e6042e you can find this problem too, but that is not for Windows. In Oracle Support you can find a solution, but again, not for Windows. But maybe it works? Another suggestion is to use smaller backupfiles. We use 2 GB max, I will try what happens when I change this to 1 GB max.
You should be aware that restoring can give similar problems. We succeeded in restoring databases from the network server, but not always. When RMAN refuses to restore the database from the network server, it may be a solution to rename the backuppieces in the RMAN catalog, for instance:
UPDATE RMAN.BP SET HANDLE=replace(handle,'\\SRV08D1\sharename\','E:\') where tag='TAG20090828T204552';
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Rman archivelog backup fails with rman-03002,ora-19563

Hi,
D:\ Oracle- -\BIN\RMAN TARGET / NOCATALOG
RMAN> backup archivelog all;
RMAN-03002: Error with backup command on 06-25-2013
ORA-19563: Header-Validation is not successful.
fails with the given errors.
11.2.0.2 PROD DB on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterpriise.
When I issue BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 0 DATABASE; it works fine. but with archivelog it is creating problems. Unfortunatly, I have not found exactly the same problem on google and on Oracle support.
The DB is using INIT.ORA and last time when I switched the mode to archive log mode I set the parameter like SCOPE=MEMORY as SPFILE was not in use and ALTER SYSTEM with SCOPE=BOTH FRA destination and size, but after the DB restarting of course that setting is gone and I am having these problems.
Please suggest.
Thanks a lot.
Best Regards,

Hi,
Thanks a lot.
I don't think that archivelogs were relocated, except I changed the location yesterday.
As I wrote at the start that because of INIT.ORA file being in use instead of SPFILE. I set DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST, DB_RECOVERY_DEST_SIZE after changing the DB mode to ARCHIVELOG, but DB was restarted by somebody else, and as the parameter changing was NOT PERMANENT, it rollback.
LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST was set to d:\oradata\db with archivelog mode but db_recovery_file_dest and size was set to 0. Now here, I have no idea that whether archivelogs were not being backed up or deleted physically, but I guess that as log_archive_dest parameter is deprecated and mode is set to archivelog with no real ARCHIVELOG DESTINATION. Please correct me if I am wrong or totally wrong :-)
I performed DELETED EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL, and it deleted 49 EXPIRED objects.
Now CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL and LIST ARCHIVELOG ALL shows nothing.
LIST BACKUP OF ARCHIVELOG ALL has of course those 49 archivelog gap.
Could you please tell the impacts of those 49 missing archivelogs. Retention policy is set to 14 days. I mean the risk is for 14 days right? As anyhow, the older backups are being DELETED according to retention policy of RMAN.

FRA changed but incremental RMAN disk backup failed

This is a 11.1 test database.
There was a daily FRA RMAN backup scheduled from database control. Because of the filesystem space pressure we changed FRA destination to a new filesystem and removed old FRA directories.
But this time RMAN failed because it is trying to access the old files as base. How can I force RMAN to make a new base for daily incremental backup and not loose the already scheduled backup.
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Connected to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0
Connected as ODS
SQL> SELECT output FROM v$rman_output ORDER BY recid;
OUTPUT
connected to target database: OWB11 (DBID=373788874, not open)
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
echo set on
run {
allocate channel oem_disk_backup device type disk;
recover
allocated channel: oem_disk_backup
channel oem_disk_backup: SID=688 device type=DISK
Starting recover at 12-JUL-08 02:01:13
no copy of datafile 5 found to recover
no copy of datafile 7 found to recover
no copy of datafile 8 found to recover
channel oem_disk_backup: starting incremental datafile backup set restore
channel oem_disk_backup: specifying datafile copies to recover
recovering datafile copy file number=00003 name=/dwh0/app/oracle/product/flash_r
channel oem_disk_backup: reading from backup piece /ods01/owb11/flash_recovery_a
OUTPUT
released channel: oem_disk_backup
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 07/12/2008 02:01:14
ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece /ods01/owb11/flash_recovery_area/O
ORA-19625: error identifying file /dwh0/app/oracle/product/flash_recovery_area/O
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
exit;
36 rows selected
SQL>

assuming you are using the Oracle provided backup procedure (you are pretty scarce on details) you need to make sure you don't have any backups (crosscheck backup and delete expired backup comes to mind), and run the procedure again. It will make a new level 0 backup and incrementals on the following days.
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RMAN Tape Backups

Hi
We have set a recovery window of 7 days in RMAN. And we move the obsolete files to tape from hard disks before deleting them.
Is there any way to track theses files from RMAN i.e. How will RMAN know about theses files.
e.g. If i have to recover database to one month back then how will i proceed.
Thanks
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Increase the recovery window. It is just like buying 2 gallons of gas on every gas station when you want to travel 2000 miles. Why? fill up the tank and go ahead.
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Restore controlfile from leagato tape backup

I am using legato tool to perform rman tape backup.
I use the following script on legato to get the controlfile backup.
"backup current controlfile format '%d_%s_%p.ctrl'; "
If I lost the controlfile how do i restore controlfile from the tape. Assume that the DB in nomount stage.

Hi,
backing up autobackup controlfiles to legato is possible. All you have to do is to configure autobackup accordingly. By default autobackup controlfiles will get written to disk.
However i strongly recommend to use a rman backup catalog. This will save you a lot of time consuming trouble if you need to restore your database.
The rman catalog database itself does not need any license and is rather small (5 GB on disk, 512 MB memory).
Restoring the control file will be something like this:
set controlfile autobackup format for device type sbt to '%F';
restore controlfile from autobackup;
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My Blog: http://blog.ronnyegner-consulting.de

RMAN with Netbackup - ALL Tape backups expired

Hello,
I am currently experiencing some issues between Netbackup and RMAN.
A bounce of the Netbackup server seems to have marked all our tape backups managed by RMAN as 'Expired'. This means RMAN can no longer locate any of the tape backups.
We have checked the rentention periods and the physical backups on the tapes and they seem to be ok. Therefore it would suggest a link problem between Netbackup and RMAN. We have tried bouncing the Netbackup servers again but this has not resolved the situation.
However sometimes the tape backups become available and but then become expired again.
I have also tried backing up to Tape since the bounce and the backup is successful, however 24 hours later it becomes expired despite Retention policy set to 4 weeks on both RMAN and Netbackup.
Please help!
Thank you

Hey;
I tried the delete obsolete; command initially. Admittedly, I didn't report that - so here's the output:
RMAN> delete obsolete;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to recovery window of 3 days
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=137 devtype=DISK
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_2
channel ORA_DISK_2: sid=132 devtype=DISK
Deleting the following obsolete backups and copies:
Type Key Completion Time Filename/Handle
Backup Set 6 10-SEP-09
Backup Piece 6 10-SEP-09 c-1369681761-20090910-00
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at 07/24/2010 21:36:58
RMAN-06091: no channel allocated for maintenance (of an appropriate type)
As for the changing default device type: someone had mentioned that the default device type was disk so I changed it to tape, tried the command, failed, then switched it back.
Just to reiterate: I don't have a tape drive on this box; never did. I'm not sure how two tape backups could have gotten there in the first place.
The oracle version is:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
and the OS version is:
$ uname -r; cat /etc/redhat-release
2.6.18-128.el5xen
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
If push comes to shove, I can leave those two backups. There were a rather large number of them that I did successfully make go away. It just seems odd that I can't make these guys go away.
Thanks for the help; I appreciate it.
Doug

Persistent setting for rman in tape backup

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When your are going to take tape backup using RMAN utility, how can u control persistent settings with RMAN(show all). I meant how to set retention policy for datafile,controfile backup and archivelog as well.
And if i choose to take incremental backup how these things are changed?? Please help me on these issue as i have some confusion with this.
Regards,

Hi,
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Hello,
I have question,
1) Whether it is possible to do "RMAN Automatic Backup and recovery" in environment as ?
Environment: -
a. Windows clustering with windows server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 (Two Node Clustering)
b. Shared disk ( RAID )
c. Oracle 10g standard edition one
d. Oracle fail safe v3.3.3 (for redundancy)
Here we have single oracle instance operating on single database whose files are located on shared disk.
2) If answer to above question is yes please specify if there is some good documentation to it.
Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Rahul

You just need to make sure that the RMAN scripts are always able to connect to the target database instance whether instance runs on cluster node 1 or cluster node 2
here, If oracle services(resources) will shift from Node1 to Node2 (due to media or any failure) during RMAN Backup then there will be break in connection, will it destroy my backup or will it get started automatically without any harm?
and also I want to know,
Do we need to setup another server which will have RMAN backup script running?

RMAN Backup Failed.

Hi Gurus,
My RMAN backup failed with below error.Please suggest.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of sql command on default channel at 01/26/2013 22:48:56
RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: alter system archive log current
ORA-00258: manual archiving in NOARCHIVELOG mode must identify log
RMAN>
Recovery Manager complete.
Thanks,

The message indicates that your database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode. You cannot make an RMAN Backup of a database that is OPEN if it is in NOARCHIVELOG mode.
You have two options
1. Make consistent RMAN Backups with the database only in MOUNT mode (SHUTDOWN ; STARTUP MOUNT)
OR
2. Configure for ArchiveLogs (create a target filesystem or FRA), set the database to ARCHIVELOG mode, monitor the volume of ArchiveLog generation, configure both Database and ArchiveLog backups.
Hemant K Chitale

RMAN backup fails using OEM with no output error

I am trying to do a weekly automatic full backup of a database in noarchivelog mode using RMAN in Enterprise Manager. Every time I submit the backup job (even if I try to do an immediate backup) the job fails almost immediately. When I Iook at the job output for the failed attempt, it says that there is no output for the job. I believe I have all of the preferred credentials and priveleges correct. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be or maybe where I can find an error log for rman to get a better explanation of the error?
Thanks

please check in metalink.....
you find useful informations here:
RMAN backup using Oracle Secure Backup fails with ORA-19511 (sbt__rpc_connect)
Doc ID: Note:396046.1
Best Regards,
Shishir Tekade.
My Blog: http://shishirtekade.blogspot.com

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