The rman and oracle servers are NT4.0 sp6a. The relinking in the manual outlines the steps for unix not win32. Steve
-----Original Message----- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/30/2003 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: Oracle TDP issues 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. **********************************************************************