I do a Grep on all the rman logs - for ORA- and RMAN and email if I Find any - A whenever would be good. On 11/10/2010, Peter Hitchman <pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Spent a un-happy morning with various database jobs that reported that > they failed because there was no access to the rman catalog, because > the machine that was on went down, > but the backup went ahead and then the job failed, causing it to be > re-started by the scheduler because its set to do that on failure. > > As a result some of the backups were actually repeated, because the > rman session could talk to TSM OK, just not the catalog. > > This got me to thinking, that what I would like to do in the rman > command script, is to tell it to stop and exit if there is a > connection error (like the whenever instruction in sqlplus), > but I cannot find any reference on how to do this. Anybody know if > this type of feature is available? > > Thanks > Pete > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Howard A. Latham Sent from my Nokia N97 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l