Hi Stephen! When using Oracle 8.1.7 you will have to relink RMAN with TDPO. This procedure can be found in the manual. For your convenience, here's the direct link: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITSMFD/SC32-9064-00/en_US/HTML/ab5u0 008.htm#HDRRELINK Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Firmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 15:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Oracle TDP issues TSM sever 5.2.1 on win2k Oracle 8.1.7.3 on winnt 4 sp6a rman is running on a different nt4 sp6a machine TSM for Databases - Oracle 5.2.0 is installed on the rman server with ba client 5.1.6.0 when running the rman scripts on the rman server I get these errors: RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: allocate RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel t1 RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-19557: device error, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27000: skgfqsbi: failed to initialize storage subsystem (SBT) layer ORA-19511: SBT error = 4110, errno = 0, BACKUP_DIR environment variable is not s et RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.DEVICEALLOCATE Any ideas????? Thanks. Steve ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **********************************************************************