Thank you all for your suggestions. Since we had already lost 34 hours over the tape issue, the SA's agreed to NFS the backup disk from the new server onto the old server; something I asked for 4 months ago and was told that it was too much trouble. I ran an RMAN backup and restore was a piece of cake. I copied the archivelogs to the new node and recovery worked like a charm. I'm now migrating the database from 32-bit to 64-bit and upgrading to 9.2.0.8. We'll be doing disk backups on the new server and the OS backups are working with Veritas so they can backup my RMAN backups to tape. I also created a small test 9.2.0.8 database that we're going to trouble-shoot the tape issue as a backup plan for disk backups and placing a copy of production into test. Thanks again. With any good luck at all today, I'll be able to get to bed before midnight. Sandy On 1/13/07, Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sandra, Netbackup logs into a variety of log files in /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/. Your best bet to get the real reason for failure is to look in those logs. Depending on the version of NBU, the logs for the Oracle library end up in the above directory under ./dbclient/ (on the client) or ./user_ops/dbext/logs/. Look for and tail the most recently created log files(s). In certain cases, to make a component of NBU start logging, you must create the logging directory in order for NBU to begin logging to it. Presumably this is covered somewhere in the NBU documentation. Good luck searching that (see previous thread on searching Veritas documentation with Google). Good luck, Jeremiah Wilton ORA-600 Consulting http://www.ora-600.net ________________________________________ From: Sandra Becker I need to restore my production database to a new node but I'm getting the following errors: ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="PRDRUBY_14478_1_611444563", parms="" ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text: Failed to process backup file <PRDRUBY_14478_1_611444563> RHEL 4, Oracle 9.2.0.5 Standard One edition, Veritas 6.0