Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: > Drake, > > Just for grins, try deleting the backup sets one at a time. > > RMAN> change backupset 698 delete;
Thomas,
Thanks for your reply. I have tried deleting the backup sets one at a time, unfortunately with the same result.
> Sorry - I don't have any information about "additional information 2".
A few other helpful people have emailed me with information about "Additional information: 2" - thanks! Here is what they've told me:
John Clarke: My guess is that "2" is an O/S return code, and in /usr/sys/include/errno.h, you'll see that error# 2 is "no such file or directory. Accompanied with ORA-27191 (See ORA-27191.ora-code.com), I'd guess that your problem is that your tape library doesn't currently have the tape(s) loaded and/or can't find them.
Mladen Gogala: Additional information 2 means that OS returned status 2. That is a "file not found" error. In plain Spanglish, you cannot delete files from tape, only from the disk drives.
Niall Litchfield: The source error is the ora-27191 (See ora-27191.ora-code.com) error (http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10744/e24280.htm #ORA-27191 (See ORA-27191.ora-code.com)) which suggests a tape library issue to me. You can search for RMAN errors using the error search page as well http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db10g/db10g.error_search?search=rman-03009 for example
Thanks again everyone for your help! I now have much more to go on than before.
