Hey listers, I thought someone might have hit this one before. Oracle 9.2.0.5 on Solaris, RMAN, BrightStor ArcServe ? With one of our clients we have an open issue for months with CA and so far I can summarize it as following: - database backup in two channels - one channel finishes much earlier than another one - on BrightStor side, after 20 or 30 minutes the job corresponding to this first channel fails with error "connection to [hostname] failed" or something similar. - after database backup finishes, controlfile auto backup fails with chance 50/50. I.e. 50% chance to choose "dead" channel. - originally there was archive log backup following database backup but as you might have guessed that one was failing with 100% probability. - the only workaround I can imagine is to use one channel but this is unacceptable - backup takes too long then. I can look up exact errors and timeout if that helps. CA support is completely hopeless on BrightStor - you would be surprised how good Oracle support compare to those jokers. Thanks for any hints. Alex -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev The Pythian Group Sr. Oracle DBA http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/ http://blog.oracloid.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l