Re: Oracle agent for Veritas backup exec not working - ociw32.dll

"news.amnet.net.au" <hugo_at_geoinformex.com> wrote in message news:<newscache$ijromh$0o1$1_at_phantom.amnet.net.au>... DLL HELL! AAAAAAAH! I found a quote from about 1.5 years ago on metalink:

"The ociw32.dll was for 7.3 Oracle installation and was only distributed with 8.0/8i/9i installations for backwards compatiblity. I just checked my 9i installation and it is put in the oracle_home\bin directory and in the oci directory, if you install OCI itself.

But I would let your vendor know that uses that dll, that it may not be in the next release since Oracle only supports up to 3 releases for backwards compatibilty"

I found this humorous. So, anybody, is it true and is it in 10G?

As far as getting the latest one, install Oracle into a new Oracle home (maybe on another machine?) and grab it from there. AFAIK, Oracle doesn't distribute them separately. See metalink note: 198699.1 and http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q233/2/97.asp if you have problems overwriting the dll.

> Hi
>
> I use Veritas 9 version 4454 to backup my Oracle 9i databases using the
> oracle backup agent. One database (production database) is version
> 9.2.0.1.0, the other (infrastructure database) is version 9.0.2.0.1 . Both
> are in archivelog mode. The problem is that I cannot see anything under my
> Veritas backup list for the SIDs of the databases, except the archive log
> files and the Oracle control file. This seems typical for a problem
> described in this article: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/190525.htm
>
> I think, from seeing an email conversation on the Oracle metalink site, that
> the version of ociw32.dll I have (version 1.0.0.5) is not compatible with
> Veritas 9 version 4454. However, nobody seems able to point me to the
> direction where I can either download a later version of ociw32.dll or get a
> patch for Oracle that includes a newer version of ociw32.dll. Note that
> recently I have upgraded Oracle with patchsets p2632931_9202 for the
> production database and p2703110_9022 for the infrastructure database. But
> these patchsets did not upgrade the version of ociw32.dll.
>
> Does anyone knows anything more about his problem? Note that I do not think
> that it is a problem with multiple homes and the inability of the system in
> finding the right version of ociw32.dll and other oracle dlls (I have
> multiple homes as I run the production and infrastructure database on the
> same server). I have checked: my registry keys are all correctly set so that
> ociw32.dll and others can be found in the right locations for each oracle
> home.
>
> Any help with this rather intractable problem would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Hugo

jg

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