RMAN to disk does work....

But what about sbtinit?  Is that a netbackup piece?  Where is sbtinit
called from? When RMAN does a disk job, it is basically a disk dump.
All SBT functions are not used.

--
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Sponsler, Michael
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backup fails...gives no error

A quick way to check if it is NetBackup.... Run the RMAN script to disk!
Then there is no netbackup involved. 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
Sponsler, Michael
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:48 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backup fails...gives no error

Netbackup 6.0 MP5, Solaris 10 Master Server, Solaris 8 Media Server w/
SCSI attached Quantum SDLT600 superloader (Sun SPARC v440 hardware),
SuSE Ent. Linux 9 (64bit)  Client (Sun Opteron AMD64 x4200 hardware)
Oracle 10g

The Linux client runs the oracle db.  The Linux client was created via
an image that was used to make 14 other oracle db servers on the same
x4200 server hardware (same amount of ram, # CPU, and CPU type) that
each work with their own media server.

Running the RMAN command (as oracle):

run {
allocate channel ch00 type 'sbt_tape';
release channel ch00;
}

Doesn't do anything.  And when I say doesn't do anything...it just sits
there.  It doesn't give an error, it doesn't give any output.   Running
debug on;  in the rman command, the output stops at:
DBGRPC:   krmxr: xc=192932958840 chid=ch00 calling peicnt

Doing an strace, I see it load up the libobk.so64 library...but it looks
like it hangs on sbtinit.

I've tried reinstalling the netbackup client...I've relinked the oracle
DB and restarted the Oracle DB.

I have a ticket open with symantec.  Oracle says it's Netbackup (of
course).

The Oracle DB cannot be reinstalled, this is a production server with a
production DB.

Any thoughts?

--
Mike Sponsler
Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Michael.Sponsler AT ngc DOT com

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