Hi Dave,

Sure - the clients are on Sun 5.10 and the servers are W2003sp2.

Much appreciated

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Dave Canan <ddcanan AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> Could you please include the client and server OS platform and level?
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Matthew Large <
> mlargedellteam AT googlemail DOT 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
> >
>