Hi listers, I've got an Oracle 10g R2 installed on a HP Unix box. I tried to get a full backup from database using RMAN (as I did few times on this particular database before without any problem) and I've got the following error: *>>rman target /* * * *Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Sep 23 15:16:06 2009* * * *Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.* * * *connected to target database: PRODXTEW (DBID=2880461687)* * * *RMAN> backup database;* * * *Starting backup at 23-SEP-09* *using target database control file instead of recovery catalog* *allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1* *channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=733 devtype=DISK* *channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backupset* *channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset* *input datafile fno=00002 name=/u01/oradata/PRODXTEW/undotbs01.dbf* *input datafile fno=00004 name=/u01/oradata/PRODXTEW/some_data_file.DBF* *input datafile fno=00003 name=/u01/oradata/PRODXTEW/auxdbj01.dbf* *input datafile fno=00001 name=/u01/oradata/PRODXTEW/system01.dbf* *channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 23-SEP-09* *RMAN-00571: ===========================================================* *RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============* *RMAN-00571: ===========================================================* *RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_DISK_1 channel at 09/23/2009 15:17:29* *ORA-19502: write error on file "/u04/flash_recovery_area/PRODXTEW/backupset/2009_09_23/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20090923T151614_%u_.bkp", blockno 262017 (blocksize=8192)* *ORA-27072: File I/O error* *HP-UX Error: 2: No such file or directory* *Additional information: 4* *Additional information: 262017* *Additional information: 1040383* The path "*/u04/flash_recovery_area/PRODXTEW/backupset/2009_09_23*" exists.. I checked.. *>>cd /u04/flash_recovery_area/PRODXTEW/backupset/2009_09_23* * [SVR001TW56][/u04/flash_recovery_area/PRODXTEW/backupset/2009_09_23][oracle] * *>>* I also made sure that I have enough space left from what I've allocated to the backup and archive destination (Which is about 200GB). part of the SPFILE: * log_archive_format = %t_%s_%r.arc* * db_recovery_file_dest = /u04/flash_recovery_area* * db_recovery_file_dest_size= 211968000000* * * * * *SQL> select * from v$flash_recovery_area_usage;* * * *FILE_TYPE PERCENT_SPACE_USED PERCENT_SPACE_RECLAIMABLE NUMBER_OF_FILES* *------------ ------------------ ------------------------- ---------------* *CONTROLFILE 0 0 0* *ONLINELOG 0 0 0* *ARCHIVELOG 9.63 1.02 108* *BACKUPPIECE 1.72 .76 13* *IMAGECOPY 0 0 0* *FLASHBACKLOG 0 0 0* * * * * Any idea what might be the cause? Any help is appreciated. ~ Amir Gheibi