Backup Manager traps on Oracle 8.0.5 for NT

While trying to perform a database backup using the Backup Manager/Legato Storage Manager we encountered a serious problem on Oracle 8.0.5 on NT 4/SP4 when trying to backup our database. (the error was : 'The Server raised an exception'. Nothing more, nothing less)

This is what we did to even further test it as to make it reproducable :

• created a simple test scenario on a testmachine that would backup a simple, pretty default database in the NOARCHIVELOG mode and no recovery catalog database.
• created a repository database for the Enterprise Manager (exactly according to the online manual).
• After shutting down + mounting the database to be backupped we started the Backup Manager from within the Enterprise Manager
• created a backup set to DISK (and later to TAPE, didn't make a difference)
• started the (full) backup database immediate (or scheduled, didn't make a difference)

This is when the backup manager comes up with an error window saying 'The server raised an exception'. No further info is being given and the backup manager has to be killed in order to work with it again!

Is this a known bug ? are there any fixes for it ?

The above was tested on a Compaq Proliant 1600 with one PII-400 CPU and 1Gb internal memory.

BTW: backing up the database using the RMAN command-line interface still works, to disk and to tape. But we'd very much like to use the GUI instead.

Regards,

Simon Verzijl

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