Hi Dave, Sure - the clients are on Sun 5.10 and the servers are W2003sp2.
Much appreciated On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Dave Canan <ddca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you please include the client and server OS platform and level? > Thanks. > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Matthew Large < > mlargedellt...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm unable to ascertain the cause of this backup failure - the Oracle > > errors > > point to a disk problem, but then 'inappropriate ioctl for device' looks > > like there is a problem with the destination device, not the source. > > > > Starting backup at 22-may-2009 14:44:34 > > current log archived > > allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 > > channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: sid=139 devtype=SBT_TAPE > > channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.4.1.0 > > RMAN-00571: =========================================================== > > RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== > > RMAN-00571: =========================================================== > > RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 05/22/2009 14:45:08 > > ORA-19587: error occurred reading 512 bytes at block number 1 > > ORA-27091: unable to queue I/O > > ORA-27072: File I/O error > > SVR4 Error: 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > Additional information: 4 > > Additional information: 1 > > > > Recovery Manager complete. > > + STATUS=1 > > > > STATUS=1 > > Fri May 22 14:45:08 BST 2009: Backup failed > > Fri May 22 14:45:08 BST 2009: Finished > > swisp012# > > > > > > Any help wholly appreciated! > > > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > >