RE: Media Recovery needed

Mladen - I am curious about your disaster recovery test. I am in the process of implementing RMAN here, but management says I must continue to do cold backups until I can successfully perform a disaster recovery test using RMAN. I can't argue the point. In a realistic sense, in a real disaster, our hardware vendors have promised to make a somewhat similar system available to us. I've been trying to decide what a reasonable disaster recovery test would involve. Any insights would be appreciated. Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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On 2002.05.27 02:33 Simon Waibale wrote:
> Hi Mladen Gogala,
> Thanks for your input, I did use similar approach to your suggestion
> save I
> left
> everthing to oracle!
>
> 1) svrmgrl
> 2) connect internal
> 3) startup mount;
> 4) recover automatic database;
> 5) alter database open;

That means that all the archives were in place. I do advise you to check whether
the file is in the backup mode. That is a frequent cause of alarm, usually caused
by a combination of a backup script and system reboot (either crash or negligence).
Trust me, I did recovery more then once. The company that I work for has so-called
DR tests at Comdisco in NJ once a year. There we fully recover our systems, just as if
a disaster has taken place. Our configuration is 4 HP 9000/N systems with EMC and
Hyperfabric, of course with OPS. The plan is to transition to RAC within a year.

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