Dont know if it is still valid but I remember having to link the library
from netbackup to oracle's libobk.so to get rman working properly...


# ls -l libobk.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 oradev   oinstall      38 Jul 21 16:11 libobk.so ->
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so64.1


"Ballowe, Charles" wrote:
> 
> Even specifying by full path fails. Oracle documentation
> also suggests that you can force the particular library
> that is loaded by adding PARMS='SBT_LIBRARY=/path/to/libobk.so'
> to the allocate channel statement. The trace files in
> Oracle's udump directory tell me that it failed to map
> The library and give a full and proper path to it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K Chapman [mailto:tech2187 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 11:34 AM
> To: Ballowe, Charles; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN problem -- odd
> 
> is it possible that you have multiple oracle installs
> and the wrong rman is being run?
> 
> --- "Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe AT usg DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > I have 3 systems running oracle - exactly the same
> > software version on
> > all 3. (Oracle 9.2.0.5) 2 of them work beautifully
> > with RMAN, one comes
> > up with ORA-27211 failure to load media manager
> > library errors. This is
> > made more interesting because oracle's sbttest
> > utility works just fine,
> > the problem is only with RMAN.
> >
> > I've verified the checksums of the NBU library
> > between the systems and
> > they are identical, I've even copied it from one
> > system to the other,
> > still no luck.
> >
> > I've written a small program that simply does a
> > dlopen() on the shared
> > library and outputs a message indicating success or
> > failure. This
> > program successfully opens the library.
> >
> > Has anybody seen similar behavior before?
> >
> > -Charlie
> >
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> 
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