No. We have had these backups in place forever and the box crashed before the backups started. K "Best, David" <David.Best@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: How about OS backups? I have experienced issues on Windows boxes where the backup software locks the files while backing them up. Depending on user activity at that time it could explain why some days its a problem and others not. --------------------------------- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kathy duret Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:46 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: production service stopping - head stratcher... Nope. We regularly do scans on our none db files and I had them scan the db files just to be sure. K Peter McLarty <peter.mclarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Kathy Sounds like a virus scanner getting into your Oracle installation Cheers Peter On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:23 -0800, kathy duret wrote: The OracleServicexxx service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). Faulting application oracle.exe, version 9.2.0.6, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.2.3790.2919, fault address 0x00015e02. Windows 2003 9.2.0.6 My production service on Window 2003 is stopping intermediately with the errors above. There are no trace files, no core dumps, nothing from the hardware, nothing except those errors in the event view. It happens frequently on Tuesdays at 6:00 ish but not always. I can't track it to any one user or process that might be doing this. I do have an SR open with Oracle and haven't gotten anywhere. I have deleted the service, bounced the box, recreated the service and rebounced the box. Nothing has been done to this box except for the normal windows patches. Anybody run into this before? This has been very stable for us and we do reboot the box every 2 months or so to update the microsoft patches. Thanks, Kathy --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.