Re: Help resurecting an instance

stanb_at_panix.com (Stan Brown) wrote:

]I have an old v7 db installed on one of my home machines. Recently I had a
]disk crash, and restored one of the hard disk. Now when I do dbstart, I get
]the following error messages:
]
]ORA-00214: controlfile '/oracle/oradata/stan/control01.ctl' version 1413
]inconsistent with file '/local/oradata/stan/control02.ctl' version 1397
]
]The db was not runing in archivelog mode.
]
]Given that the contents of non system data in the db don't matter, what can
]I do to get this db back up and runing?

They are control files.
rename control02.ctl as a backup, then copy control01.ctl as control02.ctl

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