RMAN backup question

From: Helmut Daiminger <hdaiminger_at_vivonet.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:46:26 -0800
Message-Id: <10689.122820@fatcity.com>

Hi there!

I'm trying to implement an online backup using RMAN. Since I'm new to this tool, I'm running into some problems...

Can I use UNC paths to specify where I want a copy of a datafile to be placed?

\\file\oradata is a share on the file server where I want RMAN to put its backups:

run {
allocate channel d1 type disk;
backup
format '\\file\oradata\daffy\rman\system01_%t_%s' (datafile 'e:\oracle\oradata\daffy\system01.dbf'); release channel d1;
}

Any idea why this does not work?

This is 8.1.6 on Windows 2000. Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 16:46:26 CST