CRITICAL: Oracle Bug at Backup

 Hello all. I am experiencing a serious problem at backup time.   When I try to make a backup of my 7.1.6 instance of Oralce on Dynix/ptx   2.1.x (Sequents Unix) I get an ORA-0600 Space Leak. This during    a cold back up of the database, i.e the instance is shutdown immediate   and then all the "cold" datafiles are backed up to tape.    We called Oracle, there are answers: "We know, too bad. go to 7.3"    or "do a shutdown abort,bring it backup and then do a shutdown immediate".    Well gee..shutdown aborts are not exactly the best thing in the world now.    What a waste of time, their support is getting real bad...do any   of you gurus out there have any safe workarounds? I am really annoyed,    since three backups in a row have failed, and I had to stay up real   late to get good ones, weree I did them maunually. I find this really   bad on Oracles part not to provide a patch on this serious issue...    it leaves me in bind on my backups, and there is nothing I can do    which would make me comfortable and rest in peace at nite.

   Please , email me or follow up. I am deeply ineterested in your input on    this issue. This always occurs at midnite by the way, and the other    7.1.6 instances share the same problems, except not as often as this one.

  Thanks many times.

-chris

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   this. Received on Fri Aug 30 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST