On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 veritas-bu-request AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote:

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> From: "Bobby R Windle" <bwindle AT wlgore DOT com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:24:50 -0500
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: No buffer space available
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> I'll try this again.  We have exhausted Veritas and Oracle- Third level
> support. No one seems to
> know what the problem is. We have done everything from changed number
> available ports,
> network buffer sizes and tcp settings on the media server etc, etc, etc.
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> I'm using RMAN to backup an Oracle (8.1) Data base from a Microsoft 2000
> client.
> We are getting good backups some of the time. Other times I get this
> message in
> the client  bpclient log.    Socket nnnnnn failed     No buffer space
> available.     It  seems
> to work once and the next time it does not.  We are using Solaris 8 on the
> media/master server.
> The error message from Netbackup up is status 6. It would appear that RMAN
> just stops sending
> data.  Any ideas, anyone?
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I don't have any MS Oracle clients and have never seen the "no buffer
space" problem on Solaris Oracle clients.  Did the Veritas tech support
mention anything about OTM or VSP settings?  The default settings for
OTM are very strict and I had to tweak OTM cache control and
backup behavior to eliminate backup failures due to insufficient
disk space for the OTM cache.  Since upgrading to FP5 which uses VSP,
the MS windows backup failures have been significantly reduced.

--Kathy