I'd opt for the tapes, sorry. Congratulate the Unix guy.
--
Kind reGards,
Gerard
(ghp_at_santens.be; ghp_at_skynet.be)
Dr. J. Wang <NO_SPAM.jizwang_at_cc.umanitoba.ca> schreef in artikel
<5u40g7$7k7$1_at_postern.mbnet.mb.ca>...
>
> Hi all, on my first day being a DBA, our oracel server machine (Oracle
> 7.3.2.1, on a Unixware 2.1) ran out of disk space. After some looking
around,
> we found that previous DBA set 'auto archive log' to true and those
archieved
> log file eat up 760MB disk space in 4 months period. So our Unix guy came
over
> and removed files. He accidently removed ALL redo log files AND control
files,
> only left datafiles alone.
...
(we have backup tapes. but
> before doing tape backup, we like to try those datafiles on the machine)
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
