Re: Specifying drive letter in RMAN

Nevermind, It does seem to have something to do with running rman remotely

"Jake" <me_at_heyjay.com> wrote in message
news:alna6i$ie6$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> Hi,
>
> I'm running 8.1.7 on win2000 with a rman catalog
> I'd like to write my backup to a network drive. I've read all of the
> metalinks and google on using RMAN with a network drive. It works with a
> \\servername notation, but not with a drive letter. I DO NOT have file
> permission problems. I created a share on 192.168.30.10, under c:\backup,
> an everyone has full access.
>
> it works fine, but if I do:
>
> run {
> allocate channel d1 type disk;
> allocate channel d2 type disk;
> allocate channel d3 type disk;
>
> backup
> tag whole_database_open
>
> format "\\192.168.30.10\backup\%d_df_%U"
> database;
> }
>
> but when I map the z: drive (on the target) to the share:
>
> run {
> allocate channel d1 type disk;
> allocate channel d2 type disk;
> allocate channel d3 type disk;
>
> backup
> tag whole_database_open
> format "z:\%d_df_%U"
> database;
> }
>
> I get the following. What am doing wrong?
>
> thanks
> Jake
>
> RMAN-03022: compiling command: backup
> RMAN-03023: executing command: backup
> RMAN-08008: channel d1: starting full datafile backupset
> RMAN-08502: set_count=97 set_stamp=472239328 creation_time=10-SEP-02
> RMAN-08010: channel d1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00003
> name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\USERS01.DBF
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00004
> name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\TEMP01.DBF
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00006
> name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\INDX01.DBF
> RMAN-08008: channel d2: starting full datafile backupset
> RMAN-08502: set_count=98 set_stamp=472239328 creation_time=10-SEP-02
> RMAN-08010: channel d2: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00002

 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\RBS01.DBF
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00007

 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\DR01.DBF
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00005
> name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\TOOLS01.DBF
> RMAN-08008: channel d3: starting full datafile backupset
> RMAN-08502: set_count=99 set_stamp=472239328 creation_time=10-SEP-02
> RMAN-08010: channel d3: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
> RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00001
> name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\SYSTEM01.DBF
> RMAN-08011: including current controlfile in backupset
> RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
> RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
> RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
> RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: backup
> RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel d1
> RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19504: failed to create file
> "z:\TN20DB
> _df_31e2bj70_1_1"
> ORA-27040: skgfrcre: create error, unable to create file
> OSD-04002: unable to open file
> O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
> RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to
> DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.BACKUPPIECECRE
> ATE
>
>
>
Received on Wed Sep 11 2002 - 08:31:53 CDT