Thanks Jim...

Found that the bprd service had hung / not responding. Therefore, reloaded 
inetd, then bprd started listening. After this, the backups are working fine. 

Regards,
Jayanth

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take IT to the edge


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 18:01:20 +1000
>From: "Jim McD" <jim222mcd at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN error:ORA-19506  
>To: "Jayanth D A" <jayanth at apara.com>
>Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>
>   Hi
>
>   We had lot of trouble with RMANS this is what we
>   found
>   If the error message has ORA-19511: then blame NBU
>   if errro does have NOT ORA-19511: then blame the
>   DBAs or who ever casue it ain't a NBU problem.
>
>   Some people will tell you reverse lookup is
>   essential for RMAN agents ....don't believe them..
>   but they are on the right track.
>   Recommend  fully qualified domian names and tacking
>   care with aliasing in ther hosts file ... NBU RMAN
>   agent appears to be sesntive in this area.   THen
>   again there could be many problems.
>   To start with running qa regular fileissytem backup
>   at ther same time...if still got a problem onlyin
>   one backup then its host file configuration
>
>   ..Jim
>
>   On 3/31/07, Jayanth D A <jayanth at apara.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>     having issue with RMAN backups...
>
>     setup AIX NBU server
>     Oracle 9i running on another AIX server.
>     Filesysem backup working fine
>
>     When the RMAN backup is fired we get satus code
>     58.
>
>     here's the ora_prod_hot.sh.out  file
>
>     # cat ora_prod_hot.sh.out
>
>     Script
>     /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/Ora_RMAN/ora_prod_hot.sh
>     ==== started on Sat Mar 31 12:50:52 CST 2007 ====
>
>     RMAN: /data1/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/rman
>     ORACLE_SID: telma
>     ORACLE_USER: oracle9i
>     ORACLE_HOME: /data1/oracle/product/9.2.0
>
>     NB_ORA_FULL: 1
>     NB_ORA_INCR: 0
>     NB_ORA_CINC: 0
>     NB_ORA_SERV: S_BACKPROD
>     NB_ORA_POLICY: Ora_Prod
>
>     Full backup requested
>     [YOU HAVE NEW MAIL]
>
>     Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit
>     Production
>
>     Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All
>     rights reserved.
>
>     connected to target database: TELMA
>     (DBID=2226628369)
>     using target database controlfile instead of
>     recovery catalog
>
>     RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13> 14>
>     15> 16> 17> 18> 19> 20> 21> 22> 23> 24> 25> 26>
>     27> 28> 29> 30> 31> 32> 33> 34> 35> 36> 37> RMAN>
>     2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13> 14> 15>
>     16> 17> 18> 19> 20> 21> 22> 23> 24> 25> 26> 27>
>     28> 29> 30> 31> 32> 33> 34> 35> 36> 37>
>     allocated channel: ch00
>     channel ch00: sid=91 devtype=SBT_TAPE
>     channel ch00: VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle -
>     Release 5.1 (2004043014)
>
>     sent command to channel: ch00
>
>     Starting backup at 31-MAR-07
>     channel ch00: starting incremental level 0
>     datafile backupset
>     channel ch00: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
>     input datafile fno=00024
>     name=/data3/abillity/telma/SUBS_TRN_2_01.dbf
>     input datafile fno=00059
>     name=/data6/abillity/telma/cdr_07_2006_01.dbf
>     input datafile fno=00097
>     name=/data6/abillity/telma/FXL_IND_1_07.dbf
>     input datafile fno=00016
>     name=/data5/abillity/telma/GSM_TRN_1_01.dbf
>     input datafile fno=00021
>     name=/data7/abillity/telma/NOT_USED_01.dbf
>     channel ch00: starting piece 1 at 31-MAR-07
>     released channel: ch00
>     RMAN-00571:
>     ===========================================================
>     RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK
>     FOLLOWS ===============
>     RMAN-00571:
>     ===========================================================
>     RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ch00
>     channel at 03/31/2007 12:51:02
>     ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file,
>     name="bk_158_1_618670255", parms=""
>     ORA-27028: skgfqcre: sbtbackup returned error
>     ORA-19511: Error received from media manager
>     layer, error text:
>        VxBSAValidateFeatureId: Failed with error:
>        Server Status:  cannot connect on socket
>
>     RMAN> RMAN>
>
>     Recovery Manager complete.
>
>     Script
>     /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/Ora_RMAN/ora_prod_hot.sh
>     ==== ended in error on Sat Mar 31 12:51:02 CST
>     2007 ====
>
>     #
>     Thanks in advance for your suggestions
>
>     Regards,
>     Jayanth
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>   --
>
>   Regards    Jim