RE: backup job of archives files won't start

RMAN of course connects to the target database while taking a backup. In the backup process, it takes a snapshot of the current controlfile and then takes the backup of the controlfile.

Samir

Samir Sarkar
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Sent: 11 January 2002 14:20
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Hi Bruce,

At 09:40 PM 1/10/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Jose,
>
>For the archive backup, are you able to answer the following:
>Does the RMAN process connect to the target database?
> If not, what is in the listener log file?

Does not connect, I think, because the job seats on the active job window with scheduled status and I checked the listener.log, and listener.trc, and are not showing any info about the job connecting to the database.

>Does the RMAN process then connect to the RMAN catalog?
> If not, what is in the listener log file?
>What is the RMAN process on the target waiting on - check v$session_wait

I checked the table but I don't know what field you are asking for

>What is the RMAN process on the catalog waiting on - check v$session_wait

I checked the table but I don't know what field you are asking for

>Does OEM show the job as scheduled or only as submitted?

scheduled, but this job was created to run immediately

>Does OEM get to showing the job as started?

no, only as scheduled, and I left in purpose the job from last night, and it was created to run immediately

>On your target node, does a file get created in the ?\network\agent\jobout
>dir?

no file

>If so, what is the contents of the file?

no file

>Does the directory you are trying to backup the archives to exist?

Yes

>Is the backup drive full?

No, lots of space

Thanks for your help in advance.

Jose

>Some answers to some of the above will help diagnose.
>
>Bruce Reardon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Friday, 11 January 2002 8:15
>
>Help on this one Guys!!!
>
>I have a backup job where I only select the archives, it submits the job,
>but It won't run it at all, I am doing this in Oracle's OEM my version is a
>Linux Oracle 8I
>, Linux ver 6E, I can summit other type of backup jobs, entire, datatables,
>image backup, but this one won't even run, it only displays it on the
>backup active jobs panel.
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Jose
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