Let's think about it...

In article <7aj7mv$3sh$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   sverzijl_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> 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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I hope I understood your problem correctly. So, what you are saying is you are connected to the database (Backup Manager), running in NOARCHIVELOG mode (cold backups only) and want to run a backup? Guess what - ain't gonna work. Cold backups can be done only with the database down. Now, if you had another instance with a repository set up, and you logged into that instance through OEM, and had your agent configured properly, you could shut down the database (the other instance, the one you want to back up), back it up and restart.

Hope this will help.
Good luck.

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