Hi Amir, your failure is reported when writing the first block after the first 2GB. looks like you have a filesystem, that does not support files larger than that. So - use maxpiecesize clause to limit the size of backuppieces. HTH Mathias ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amir Gheibi Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:41 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: RMAN backup fails 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_TAG2 0090923T151614_%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][ora cle] >> 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