D'oh! Sorry - both the client and the server are SunOS 5.10.
My bad On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Matthew Large < mlargedellt...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > >