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Restoring & recovering in NOARCHIVELOG

From: Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:03:29 +0100
Message-ID: <E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703F45A2D@lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>


Morning (just) Carlos,

if you are not running in ARCHIVELOG then your recovery options are simple - you recover to the last dump. This includes datafiles, controlfiles and on-line redolog files. This means that your redo information is all up to date as of the time you closed the database to take the dump.

So, you have no chance of rolling forward/recovering the days work, because you won't be able (I'm certain, but untested) to startup the database with the redologs from today with the backups of yesterdays control and datafiles. (Unless a resetlogs is involved somewhere along the line - which will negate any possibility of recvovering from those logfiles.)

Cheers,
Norman.



Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
Tel: 0113 289 6265
Fax: 0113 289 3146
URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: miotromailcarlos_at_netscape.net (Carlos) [mailto:miotromailcarlos_at_netscape.net]
Posted At: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:26 AM Posted To: server
Conversation: Restoring & recovering in NOARCHIVELOG Subject: Restoring & recovering in NOARCHIVELOG

Hi all.

We are working with Oracle 8.1.6 on Win NT in a production environment (don't blame me, It's heritage). The Database archiving mode is NOARCHIVELOG (again don't blame me). We do whole database backups daily al the end of the day (It's not a 24/7 DB). Due to requisites, we must be able to restore the status that the DB had at the beginning of the day (start) in order to reprocess (by external processes) all the activity of the day if necessary (this is easily done by restoring the last-night backup). But I'm wondering about recovering the DB if a HW problem occurs. Here is where my question comes out: If we use redo log files large enough to hold all the redo activities of a whole day we could not only restore the 'last-night cold backup' in order to reprocess, but recover the DB status to the instant before a HW failure as well by using the redo log files to roll forward. Am I right?

Thanks in advance.

Carlos. Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 06:03:29 CDT

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