this is a network isssue..I suppose.. was ping and tnsping successful from one another, if so then can you connect to db A and dbB from one another. check the sqlnet setttings of db B, your db A is operational so that sqlnet should be correct. thanks! Subodh On 12 June 2010 03:39, Stefano Cislaghi <s.cislaghi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > today I was trying to clone my 11gR2 DB from site A to site B (these are > gigabit network connected with a firewall). > I was running rman command on site B, connecting using sqlnet to target > database and so with local auxiliary database. > > Clone starts, picking first datafile with 20gb size. RMAN is not reporting > any error, seems to copy datafile but on site B ASM no datafile is > appearing. > > On site A from v$session_longops I'm able to see RMAN operation and > monitoring ToDo time. > When ToDo time has finished RMAN is no going on...seems to be stuck on file > transfer but on auxiliary ASM there's no datafile. > > About 10 minutes after v$session_longops has finished work on this datafile > the alert log of target database reports a connection timeout similar to > this: > > TNS-12535: TNS:operation timed out > ns secondary err code: 12560 > nt main err code: 505 > > TNS-00505: Operation timed out > nt secondary err code: 60 > nt OS err code: 0 > Client address: > (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=auxiliary_database_host_site_B)(PORT=1521)) > > > now I'm at home and I'm thinking about this problem... why is so slow the > duplication and why is failing? > > Firewall closes inactive connections during more than 30mins but should not > be an inactive connection as I can think that RMAN picks every single file > and transfer to auxiliary DB. Has no time to wait and cause timeout. > > Anyone have some hints or note about this RMAN scenario? > > > Thanks > Ste > -- > http://www.stefanocislaghi.eu > > -- ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ==============================