Re: How to backup ASM?

Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Jining Han <jining.han_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > ASM instance is not the same as ASM diskgroups/disk files. The ASM
> > instance itself does not contain a dictionary, and nothing much else,
> > either.
> >
> > However, after you have cleared all the metadata information from the
> > disks, they are no longer recognizable as ASM disks, therefore
> > leading to what you called "ASM instance corruption".
> >
> > What needs to be done is to start the ASM instance with NOMOUNT,
> > re-create the DISKGROUPS and perform a database restore.
>
> Thank you and Kenneth for your answers.
>
> It is a pity that there is no 'automatic' restore of that information,
> e.g. via RMAN.
>
> Yours,

Just remember how new a product ASM is. I am sure that many improvements and additions will be surfacing in the next couple of releases.

If you feel strongly that something is lacking you can submit development requests into oracle.
> Laurenz Albe
Received on Mon Dec 05 2005 - 07:43:52 CST