Specifying drive letter in RMAN

From: Jake <me_at_heyjay.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:48:16 -0500
Message-ID: <alna6i$ie6$1@bob.news.rcn.net>

Hi,

I'm running 8.1.7 on win2000 with a rman catalog I'd like to write my backup to a network drive. I've read all of the metalinks and google on using RMAN with a network drive. It works with a \\servername notation, but not with a drive letter. I DO NOT have file permission problems. I created a share on 192.168.30.10, under c:\backup, an everyone has full access.

it works fine, but if I do:

run {

    allocate channel d1 type disk;
    allocate channel d2 type disk;
    allocate channel d3 type disk;

    backup
    tag whole_database_open

    format "\\192.168.30.10\backup\%d_df_%U"     database;
}

but when I map the z: drive (on the target) to the share:

run {

    allocate channel d1 type disk;
    allocate channel d2 type disk;
    allocate channel d3 type disk;

    backup
        tag whole_database_open
        format "z:\%d_df_%U"
        database;

}

I get the following. What am doing wrong?

thanks
Jake

RMAN-03022: compiling command: backup
RMAN-03023: executing command: backup
RMAN-08008: channel d1: starting full datafile backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=97 set_stamp=472239328 creation_time=10-SEP-02
RMAN-08010: channel d1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00003

name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\USERS01.DBF RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00004
name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\TEMP01.DBF RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00006
name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\INDX01.DBF

RMAN-08008: channel d2: starting full datafile backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=98 set_stamp=472239328 creation_time=10-SEP-02
RMAN-08010: channel d2: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00002 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\RBS01.DBF
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00007 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\DR01.DBF
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00005

name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\TOOLS01.DBF

RMAN-08008: channel d3: starting full datafile backupset
RMAN-08502: set_count=99 set_stamp=472239328 creation_time=10-SEP-02
RMAN-08010: channel d3: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
RMAN-08522: input datafile fno=00001

name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TN20DB\SYSTEM01.DBF

RMAN-08011: including current controlfile in backupset
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: backup
RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel d1
RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19504: failed to create file

"z:\TN20DB
_df_31e2bj70_1_1"

ORA-27040: skgfrcre: create error, unable to create file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.

RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.BACKUPPIECECRE
ATE Received on Tue Sep 10 2002 - 22:48:16 CDT