System Administrator’s Guide U42252-J-Z915-1-76
Installation and Configuration Troubleshooting
4.5 Troubleshooting
Backing Up an Oracle Database Version 8.0 or higher
There is an Oracle Error in Oracle 8.0 to 8.0.5 (Generic BUGID 673508 and
677804) which may lead to an inconsistent backup when performing an online
backup (the redolog files are corrupted).
NSR-ORA on LINUX
You need ksh to use NSR-ORA. This means that the pdksh package must be
installed on the LINUX computer. If the NSR-ORA backup is to be analyzed with
set -x in the scripts, we recommend you use the ksh supplied with NSR-ORA.
pdksh-5.2.14-1 contains an error in this regard, which can cause ksh to crash.
However, this error has already been reported to pdksh development and should
be rectified in later versions. The fix is already integrated in the ksh that has been
supplied.