Re: Controlled block corruption testing

Hey Rich,
there is a free tool called "CrashSimulator" by Francisco Munoz Alvarez. I guess this is what you are looking for: http://oraclenz.org/?page_id=4301

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Stefan Koehler

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> Rich J <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com> hat am 18. Juni 2018 um 16:38 geschrieben:
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> Hey all,
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> I'd like to do some block media recovery testing in RMAN.  It seems that the Linux/Unix "dd" command would be an obvious choice to corrupt an Oracle datafile block, but has anyone documented a controlled test like this?  Try to not reinvent the wheel, if possible.
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> I'm thinking of targeting specific objects in the database to corrupt.  It doesn't seem difficult to get a relative block and "dd" an empty block in its place on a test instance, but if someone's already beaten this path...
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> TIA!
> Rich

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