ORA - 17628

Was recieving the following error during the creation of the standby database on 11.2 Oracle Database.

RMAN-00571: ==================================================
RMAN-00569: ====== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ==================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 06/07/2011 14:07:03
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on prmy1 channel at 06/07/2011 14:07:03
ORA-17628: Oracle error 19505 returned by remote Oracle server

Check the alert log file at standby location.The software will be trying to access/write into an non-existent directory.

Resolution:
Create the directory and give the read/write permission.