RE: bbed?

John,  

    MANY years ago, on Microsoft OS/2 Oracle V6.0.33 I had a truly fouled up database that the network administrator kept "forgetting" to backup. Well one night it died a miserable death & had to be put back together somehow. We did not have a current backup & someone had deleted without backing up the archive redo logs (same person who "forgot" to backup the database, but claimed he always did). Anyway, I opened a SEV1 tar with Oracle, over the phone in those days. A few hours later I get a third call back from Oracle. The individual there wants to know if I can get to the file in question. Well of course I can. So he asks if I can put it into debug!! We then spent half an hour "repairing" the file by bypassing the corrupt block (actual disk failure going on underneath). When we fired the DB back up I was surprised that it worked, just long enough to take a full export before it once again died miserably.  

    Power in the right hands is a good thing, power in the wrong hands is a death sentence waiting to be fulfilled. Lets hope that doesn't happen with bbed.     

Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA

45 Bartlett St Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA Tel.: 598.573.1978 |Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795

RGoulet_at_kanbay.com

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From: John D Parker [mailto:orclwzrd_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:19 PM To: Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com; Richard J. Goulet; wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu; oracle-l
Subject: RE: bbed?

It may be a dangerous tool, but it can save your bacon when the fire is hot. I've used it to enable me to recover completely unrecoverable databases. Tread lightly, as with most very powerful tool, you can do lots of damage fast if you make a mistake.

John

"Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com> wrote:

        Which is why it's password protected. But, let's not open that can of

        worms again....         

	To anyone who wants to know the password:
	If you really want to use it, you should be clever enough to
find the
	password. Don't ask people to tell you what it is. ;-)
	


	-Mark

	
	


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	From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
	[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Richard J.
Goulet
	Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:27 AM
	To: wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu; oracle-l
	Subject: RE: bbed?
	
	Bill,
	
	I just looked through a 10.2.0.2 system we have & did not find
	bbed either, but I followed the command to build it, namely make
-f
	ins_rdbms.mk $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/bbed in the
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
	directory & the darned thing built as stated. And to boot there
is a
	target in the make file for the stinker. I think this is one
tool that
	could really cause a lot of trouble. 
	
	
	
	Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA
	
	45 Bartlett St Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA
	Tel.: 598.573.1978 |Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795
	
	RGoulet_at_kanbay.com
	
	: POWERING TRANSFORMATION 
	
	


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	From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
	[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of William
Wagman
	Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:40 PM
	To: oracle-l
	Subject: bbed?
	
	
	Someone just passed this on to me. I checked a coupl of my
systems and
	didn't find it. It's an editor for modifying dbfs. The page:
	
	
	
	refers to ways of misusing the tool. The PDF paper has a few
pages of
	instructions, then some interesting examples of the tool's uses
starting
	on page 25.
	
	Bill Wagman
	Univ. of California at Davis
	IET Campus Data Center
	wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
	(530) 754-6208


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