Seems it was a network duplex mismatch -- rather than sending data
very slowly like most hosts under those conditions, this one just
wasn't sending data at all.

-Charlie

On 11/2/05, Charles Ballowe <cballowe AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> takes no more than 20 minutes to start when going to disk - and even
> then it doesn't take that long. I've got the connect and read timeout
> set high enough that that's not why it's failing -- as a matter of
> fact, it's over 2.5 hours in to an attempt right now and has yet to
> write any data.
>
> Every minute or so, I get a packet from the server, but no data flowing.
>
> -Charlie
>
> On 11/2/05, Jim Horalek <jimh AT federaledge DOT com> wrote:
> > Could be as simple as Oracle is not ready to send anything.
> > The bp connect client timeout??(default 300-5min) two small I've always need
> > to raise it above 15-30minutes. Even longer for really large databases.
> >
> > jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Charles
> > Ballowe
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:25 PM
> > To: Veritas List
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] RMAN + netbackup + windows
> >
> >
> > Ok... We're trying to get an Oracle agent going on a windows system. It
> > manages to connect to the backup server, a channel is allocated tape mounted
> > and positioned, but no data is delivered. It is recognizing the netbackup
> > server and the server is accepting it, so it's not a communication problem.
> >
> > Going RMAN to disk on the server works fine so it's not that RMAN is
> > incapable of sending data to a backup piece.
> >
> > Any ideas on what might be the problem? Anybody seen similar problems
> > before?
> >
> > -Charlie
> >
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