From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Jun 14 23:32:03 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5F4VmV10737 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:31:58 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5F4Vc610721 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:31:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8655772C4A9; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:16:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14828-37; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:16:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D2AF572C02A; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:16:24 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:15:02 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id A238072C384 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:15:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12940-70 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:15:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.228]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 556EE72C00B for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:15:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from user-vcaukan.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.81.87] helo=TerrySutton) by mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1Ba5fE-00030H-00 for oracle-l@freelists.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:35:14 -0700 Message-ID: <006101c45292$2621aae0$0400a8c0@TerrySutton> From: "Terry Sutton" To: References: <019101c45229$59f32420$0400a8c0@TerrySutton> <18391.168.215.22.23.1087253395.squirrel@mail.virtualsmf.net> Subject: Re: corrupt datafile Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:33:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-ELNK-Trace: 5830af7b3b91928f1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79ce4b2a41745844deeabc2a21cccdfd4a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-archive-position: 2722 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: terrysutton@usa.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org Naw, I'm pretty sure it's not compressed. Apparently the corruption happened during a backup, while the file was being backed up. Thanks for the attempt, though. I think it is probably just a header, but I don't know how to change that. --Terry > Hey Terry.. RUN!! ;D -- JK > > Is there a chance the datafile was compressed externally with compress or > gzip? Maybe decompressing it is all that would be required. I know that > I've mistakenly tried recovering a database and missed decompressing a > datafile only to have dbv say that the entire file is corrupt. > > It's been mentioned that maybe the header is corrupt and maybe that is > really the case.. however, I find it hard to believe that an entire file > is corrupt. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------