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
