Re: Backup and Recovery

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 06:36:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00404B60.20020204063117@fatcity.com>

short answer: no gotchas, it will work for you

longer answer: yes, because that's the way recovery is designed to work. In the header of every datafile is an SCN. If that SCN matches the one n the controlfile, the datafile is presumed to be up-to-date and no recovery is done on it.

• Randy Kirkpatrick <randywk_at_usa.net> wrote:
  > Listmembers,
  >
  > Are there any "gotchas" with restoring just one datafile from a hot
  > backup
  > and applying the archive logs? Will applying the archive logs only
  > affect
  > the restored datafile? For instance, if I have a hot backup from
  > Monday and
  > all the archive logs to the current date and a disk crashes which
  > contains
  > the datafile, can I restore just the datafile and apply all the
  > archive logs
  > from Monday forward? Are changes only applied to the restored
  > datafile?
  >
  > Randy Kirkpatrick
  > home: (303) 772-7467
  > cell: (303) 885-2102
  >
  

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