Re: REDO LOG Concepts

Can we use UTL_FILE to copy the file as seen by oracle itself to a separate location? Am suggesting the use of something like UTL_FILE because UTL_FILE will be running from within Oracle's environment and Oracle can still see the file.

Deepak

On 5/17/07, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've run into this situation before as well. It happens, people
> accidentally delete files.
>
> What would be interesting to research, is if you still can somehow recover
> those files. As they're still there, and locked by the process accessing
> them (in your case LGWR), there might be a way to "steal" the filehandle
> from that process and just write the file to another location before it's
> being closed. Though you would have to intercept the syscall closing the
> file.
>
> Anyone ever heard of any research on this ?
>
> Stefan
>
> On 5/17/07, DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials_at_gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > I do not think UNIX removes the directory entry immediately. Otherwise
> > how would it access the REDO logs by their paths.
> >
> > What might be happening is UNIX is marking it as deleted (may be using a
> > flag or so). Please do correct me if am wrong.
> >
> > Deepak
> >
> >
> > On 5/17/07, Alexander Fatkulin <afatkulin_at_gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Deepak,
> > >
> > > As others have already pointed out - you actually didn't delete
> > > anything. You just unlinked a directory entry in a file system. File
> > > is still "there" and is open by the LGWR.
> > >
> > > Shutdown immediate is a clean shutdown (no instance recovery is
> > > required after it).
> > >
> > > On 5/17/07, DBA Deepak < oracle.tutorials_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > As we know when we issue a COMMIT the log buffer content is flushed
> > > to the
> > > > online redo log file before the "Commit complete" status is returned
> > > to the
> > > > user. Please correct me if I am wrong.
> > > >
> > > > I have the following scenario...
> > > >
> > > > SQL> select member from v$logfile;
> > > >
> > > > MEMBER
> > > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > > /u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo03.log
> > > > /u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo02.log
> > > > /u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo01.log
> > > >
> > > > SQL> !rm /u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo01.log
> > > >
> > > > SQL> !rm /u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo02.log
> > > >
> > > > SQL> !rm /u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo03.log
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > SQL> connect scott/oracle
> > > > Connected.
> > > > SQL> update emp set ename=ename;
> > > >
> > > > 14 rows updated.
> > > >
> > > > SQL> commit;
> > > >
> > > > Commit complete.
> > > >
> > > > SQL> commit;
> > > >
> > > > Commit complete.
> > > >
> > > > SQL> conn / as sysdba
> > > > Connected.
> > > > SQL> shutdown immediate
> > > > Database closed.
> > > > Database dismounted.
> > > > ORACLE instance shut down.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > SQL> startup
> > > > ORACLE instance started.
> > > >
> > > > Total System Global Area 4479516672 bytes
> > > > Fixed Size 1984504 bytes
> > > > Variable Size 905975816 bytes
> > > > Database Buffers 3556769792 bytes
> > > > Redo Buffers 14786560 bytes
> > > > Database mounted.
> > > > ORA-00313: open failed for members of log group 1 of thread 1
> > > > ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1:
> > > > '/u04/oradata/BIDWDB01/redo01.log'
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----------------------
> > > >
> > > > My question is even after deleting all the online redo log files how
> > > did
> > > > Oracle returned the Commit complete status to the user? What
> > > happened to the
> > > > log buffer data flush?
> > > >
> > > > I am using 10.2.0.2 on Solaris 9 (64-bit)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Deepak
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alexander Fatkulin
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Deepak
> > Oracle DBA
>
>
>
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Deepak
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