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RMAN Backup to UNC Path [message #677678]

Fri, 04 October 2019 10:29

JValentine
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Registered: October 2019

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Going out on a limb here to see if anyone might have an explanation for the issue I am seeing.

From a test environment I can put in a UNC path for the RMAN backup location and it works just fine. From another environment I get the following error:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup plus archivelog command at 10/02/2019 14:09:29
ORA-19504: failed to create file "\\SERVER02\IFSBACKUP\RMAN\PROD_20191002_23_1.BAK"
ORA-27040: file create error, unable to create file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 1326) Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
Recovery Manager complete.

I didn't know if there is some other parameter or setting that is allowing one database to use the UNC path and another not to use it. I can navigate to the path from the server and create new files, so....

-Jeff

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Re: RMAN Backup to UNC Path [message #677679 is a reply to message #677678]

Fri, 04 October 2019 10:33

Michel Cadot
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The instance or listener owner must have the privileges to access the network and to access this UNC path.
Check which account is launching these services.

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Re: RMAN Backup to UNC Path [message #677681 is a reply to message #677679]

Fri, 04 October 2019 11:30

JValentine
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Thanks, I have discovered that the service is running as a local server user account rather than the Local System Account. I will have to check into what is needed and required to switch this back to the Local System account.

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Re: RMAN Backup to UNC Path [message #677682 is a reply to message #677681]

Fri, 04 October 2019 11:54

John Watson
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Local system is probably no good: it wouldn't usually have any privileges on a remote machine. Domain users are probably the best way to work as (if I am correct - I am not very good with Windows security) they are the same on all machines and can be granted privileges appropriately.

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Re: RMAN Backup to UNC Path [message #677683 is a reply to message #677682]

Fri, 04 October 2019 11:58

JValentine
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The database that does properly backup to the UNC location is using the Local System account, so changing to that on the other database should work just fine. I just need to know if changing those services has any hidden side effects or not. I have been used to running Oracle on Linux instead of Windows.

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