error while taking the backup to disk.

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I am facing one problem while taking the backup to disk. After copying few files to disk it got terminated and hereunder the log ,

BR0001I *****_____________________________________________

BR0201I Compressing /oracle/OPD/sapdata2/sr3_6/sr3.data6

BR0203I to /backup2/archlog/bdwuyjxg/sr3.data6.Z ...

<b>BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C compress -c /oracle/OPD/sapdata2/sr3_6/sr3.data6 > /backup2/archlog/bdwuyjxg/sr3.data6.Z':

compress: I/O error</b>

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-12-15 13.41.00

BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C compress -c /oracle/OPD/sapdata2/sr3_6/sr3.data6 > /backup2/archlog/bdwuyjxg/sr3.data6.Z': 1

BR0224E Compressing /oracle/OPD/sapdata2/sr3_6/sr3.data6 to /backup2/archlog/bdwuyjxg/sr3.data6.Z failed due to previous errors

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-12-15 13.41.02

BR0304I Starting and opening database instance OPD ...

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-12-15 13.41.16

BR0305I Start and open of database instance OPD successful

BR0115I Compression rate for all files 6.0097:1

Please confirm me whether the problem is with hardware or data corruption and need your precious suggestions on the same.

Thanks and Regards,

[fidel_vales]

<b>compress: I/O error</b>

This looks like hardware error.

is there enough free space on /backup2/archlog/bdwuyjxg/?

do you get the same error if you try manualy?