Re: Academic question: How to recover through a gap of archived redol ogs with data loss?

From: Harel Safra <harel.safra_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:30:23 +0300
Message-ID: <4A7B051F.8060804_at_gmail.com>


  1. Do a tablespace point in time recovery using all the archives starting from the backup till the last continuous one that you have.
  2. Use logminer to mine the relevant data from the archives after the gap. Pray that there aren't too many data consistency issues.

Harel

Martin Klier wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I know it's unsecure, unsupported and ugly. But given this situation:
>
> I need a recovery of a tablespace, all archivelogs are there, bu I miss
> one from last night. I want to do a "complete" recovery.
>
> The log that's missing is out of a low activity period, and I am ready
> to acceppt slight data corruption, and I will set up the DB as a new
> afterwards, but I need the data from this morning.
>
> What can one desperate DBA do?
>
> To make it clear: I don't have this situation at the moment, but someday
> this may change, and I would prefer to test this stress situation in
> peacetime (now).
>
> Any hints, advice, procedures?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Martin Klier
>

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