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Can someone please shed some light on how to pass the blksize parameter to
rman on the channel allocation?
I have read a couple of white papers, checked docs and did a glance on
Metalink, but I am having little luck.
DB is 8172 on Solaris 7
Here is what I'm getting:
RMAN> run
2> { 3> allocate channel a1 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms="blksize=1048576"; 4> } RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: allocateRMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel a1 RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: