Hi.
You don't run an fsck against a database, but on a filesystem.
The error message relates to the filesystem being mounted. It's hard to check something that might be changing.
I'm not sure that it's either a good idea, or a bad one!
This is from the AIX man page for fsck:
Quote:
1. The fsck command does not make corrections to a mounted file system.
2. The fsck command can be run on a mounted file system for reasons other than repairs. However, inaccurate error messages may be returned when the file system is mounted.
In most cases (or very many cases, at least), an Oracle backup will be taken using RMAN (I only ever used Oracle 8 at first - but presume RMAN to have been there before that!). If the database is Oracle 7, then the RMAN scripts will be for that version, and won't need to have been modified.
So what exactly is your problems with the backup scripts?