Oracle-L: RE:

From: Stephen Lee <slee_at_dollar.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:22:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00512694.20021204112251@fatcity.com>

I got to thinking a little more about this.

If you have an oraInventory directory under your product directory, I think you need to back that one up too ... at least it wouldn't hurt.

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Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I believe that is the easiest/cleanest way to restore from patches esp. when you don't know what those patches contain. -----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Gurus,
I was just given a project to maintain a Computerized Maintenance Management System. When I asked the companies support staff how to roll back patches in the backend Oracle Database (Ver. 8174), they said that there was no way to do this. I'm guessing I could use logminer just incase a patch doesn't work. Would this be a good solution, or are there other (better) ways of safeguarding myself when it comes to patching? Obviously, I will be applying the patches to a test instance first, but I don't want to have to go back to restore from a backup if the patch causes unexpected issues.
TIA!

Scott Stefick
UNIX Systems Administrator
Oracle Certified Professional DBA
Wm. Rainey Harper College
847.925.6130

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