RE: database restore question (Urgent!)

It worked and the database is up and running.

Thank y'all.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremiah Wilton [ mailto:jwilton_at_speakeasy.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:16 PM To: Roger Xu
Cc: Oracle-L_at_Freelists. Org (E-mail)
Subject: Re: database restore question (Urgent!)

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Roger Xu wrote:

> We need to do a point-in-time restore of one of our 9.2i databases
> to Monday 3 p.m.
>
> The last two backups was performed Sunday night and Friday night and
> all the archived logs are in the original place.
>
> After 13 hours of tape restore, we found out one of the DLT tapes is
> bad. We are able to find out which files are in this
>
> tape and there are 36 datafiles on it.
>
> My question: Can we restore those 36 files from Friday night's
> backup?

Yes. You will have to apply all redologs from Friday forward. Apply time of logs generated prior to the Sunday backup will be faster than if you restored all files from Friday's backup.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

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Jeremiah Wilton
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