Hi Marianne,

If you do a little client logging, I think you'll see the cause.

The last time this happened to me, I forgot to set "vnetd" on the backup 
server "client attributes". Scheduled fs backups worked fine ... the DB 
agent backups would do just what you have shown us. (The logging showed 
it tried to connect on a high-numbered port, rather than 137xx).

cheers, wayne

Marianne Van Den Berg wrote, in part, on 2008-02-12 5:46 AM:
>
> Hi all
>
> We have Oracle rman backups failing with Network Connect Timeout.
>
> Filesystem backups are working fine.
>
> Weird thing is we can see in Job details ‘Connecting, Connected’:
>
> 02/12/2008 10:32:29 - *connecting*
>
> 02/12/2008 10:32:40 - *connected*; connect time: 0:00:00
>
> 02/12/2008 10:32:40 - begin writing
>
> 02/12/2008 11:32:41 - end writing; write time: 1:00:01
>
> *network connection timed out* (41)
>
> Handshaking in bpcd on client and bpbrm on media server is successful.
>
> I have now increased Client Read Timeout to 7200. Backup ‘Active’ for 
> 1 hr 54 minutes already – still not a single byte written….
>
> Backups on this client have been successful till about 3 weeks ago. 
> NetBackup 6.0 MP4 on server and client.
>
> RMAN backups on the client to local disk start writing almost immediately.
>
> RMAN log on client :
>
> ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
>
> VxBSACreateObject: Failed with error:
>
> Server Status: Communication with the server has not been initiated or 
> the server status has not been retrieved from the server.
>
> PLEASE HELP!!
>
> Regards
>
> /*/Marianne /*/
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