How to avoid media timeouts with autobackup controlfile during an Oracle RMAN backup (4045689)

Date - 07/2007
Affected Product & Version - NetVault: Backup 7.x upwards
Affected Module & Version - APM for Oracle (Version 4.5 & 5.0)
OS Version - Any
Application Information - Oracle 10.x 9.x


Description:
How to avoid media timeouts with autobackup controlfile during an Oracle RMAN backup.

Symptoms:

When running an Oracle RMAN backup with autobackup controlfile configured, we sometimes see the failure of the main backup job with:

Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:13 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri NetVault --- SBT Abort Message received.
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:13 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri NetVault --- SBT Terminating channel.[Terminate MSG].
...
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri RMAN-03009: failure of Control File and SPFILE Autobackup command on c2 channel at 20/11/2007 11:44:...
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri RMAN-10038: database session for channel c2 terminated unexpectedly
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri Recovery Manager complete.
Job Message 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri Program finished with exit status of 1
Error 2007/11/20 11:45:23 33 Data Plugin nv_kerri RMAN returned exit code 1


The child AUTOBACKUP Controlfile job ("RMAN Controlled Backup") fails with:

Warning 2007/11/17 09:05:02 62 Media nv_kerri No suitable media for job 62 instance 1
Warning 2007/11/17 09:45:13 62 Media nv_kerri Media

This issue has been resolved in version 6 of the Oracle APM.

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