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 >
