If you access the drive through the regular system utilities you might be able to use the dd command. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM, dd yakkali <dd.yakkali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello RMAN gurus: > > > is there any way through rman you can copy a backupset from disk to tape? > > > > I have some weird situation. I have logical corruption in database ( > 10.2.0.4 on solaris 10, 11.1.0.6 ASM ) > so I did the following > > run { > allocate channel d1 type disk; > backup check logical validate database; > release channel d1; > } > > v$database_block_corruption listed 121 blocks > > Then we did the following > > run { > allocate channel sbt DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' parms > 'ENV=(NSR_SERVER=searchbu,NSR_GROUP=RMAN-DD)' FORMAT > 'DF_%d_ID%I_%T_t%t_s%s_p%p.BKP'; > blockrecover corruption list; > } > > > and it is getting hung while reading a backup set. Here is the log. We use > networker oracle module to backup to tape. > > channel sbt: restoring block(s) > channel sbt: specifying block(s) to restore from backup set > restoring blocks of datafile 00004 > channel sbt: reading from backup piece > DF_DVRPROD_ID3409228420_20080711_t659752995_s134_p1.BKP > > > Now to rule out the media or networker issues we want to first restore the > backup set DF_DVRPROD_ID3409228420_20080711_t659752995_s134_p1.BKP directly > to disk to see if the tape is alright. BTW networker is not reporting any > errors while rman is hung. > > is there any way through rman you can copy a backupset from disk to tape? > we tried to user networker recover command, but it does not restore that > file. > > > Thanks a lot for your help. > Deen >