Use map network drive on your target machine and define the drive as a directory on your recovery machine. I mean: map drive K on the target machine as f:\backup on the recovery machine. Then backup to drive K.
Yechiel Adar Mehish ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:48 PM Guys, I have a target DB and a recovery catalog DB. both r on two diff. machines in two diff. network ; both on oracle 8.1.6/win2k. i have created the recovery catalog and registered the target database. i want to backup a datafile DF1 in the target database. when i say, RMAN > run { allocate channel c1 type disk; copy datadile DF1 to 'f:\backup'; } f:\backup -- this is a directory on the recovery DB machine. I get the error below. RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: copy RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel c1 RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19504: failed to create file "F:\DF1.D AT.BAK" ORA-27040: skgfrcre: create error, unable to create file OSD-04002: "¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢ O/S-Error: (OS 3) "¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢"¢ ORA-19600: input file is datafile 9 (D:\ORACLE\DF1.DAT) ORA-19601: output file is datafile-copy 0 (F:\DF1.DAT.BAK) RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.COPYDATAFILE backup to local directory on target DB is okay. but can i backup to a remote machine on which my reco. DB resides ? if so , how do i do it ? kindly explaine me. TIA. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: oraora oraora INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Yechiel Adar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).