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RE: File Restoration/Recovery

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:33:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0056A7A4.20030314103359@fatcity.com>


Gary - send the developer to backup and recovery school.

he is wrong. as Rachel said, *maybe* it will work once. but as a DBA, you personally can *never* support this in a real environment. you will not be able to guarantee the same results every time.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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All...

A developer working on a Solaris 2.6 server running Oracle 7.3.4 desires a nightly backup (by simply copying them to a backup directory) of the datafiles of an active instance. I explain that it will be a waste of tape because the files will be corrupt and useless. He counters, "As long as these files are there, irrespective of their state, oracle [sic] provides the tools to restore the skeleton database based on these files."

Will this be the case? I understand that there will [most likely] be some loss of data, but will Oracle "fix" itself to a point where it's useful again? TIA

Gary Chambers

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