You might try setting your default device type to disk thereby eliminating the SBT_TAPE error. ........................................................................ ............................................................. Kanbay <http://www.kanbay.com/> Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA 45 Bartlett ST | Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Tel: 508.573.1978 | Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell: 508.742.5795 rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx> ........................................................................ ............................................................. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Weiss Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:41 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RMAN Recovery I finally get the chance to recover from a failure and it turns out to be the worst kind - DW (NOARCHIVELOG) 10.2 on RedHat I am using Robert's excellent RMAN book (which was delivered to me from Amazon only a week ago), but my RMAN isn't cooperating. I have good backups from a while back and have done these steps: - Flushed the data files - restored my control files - startup mount; on the database When I try to restore the database from disk backup, RMAN does this: Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu May 3 12:28:52 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. RMAN> connect target /; connected to target database: EDWPRD01 (DBID=2782310113, not open) RMAN> allocate channel for maintenance device type disk; using target database control file instead of recovery catalog allocated channel: ORA_MAINT_DISK_1 channel ORA_MAINT_DISK_1: sid=409 devtype=DISK RMAN> restore database; Starting restore at 03-MAY-07 allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=408 devtype=DISK released channel: ORA_DISK_1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 05/03/2007 12:29:55 ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library RMAN> I am going to continue RTFM'ing, but was wondering if anyone has seen this or know where I am missing the boat. Thanks Rick Weiss Oracle Database Administrator Student Assistance Foundation P.O.Box 203101 2500 Broadway Helena, MT 59620-3101 rweiss@xxxxxxxxx (406) 495-7356