Losing control files

Hello,

I am a UNIX sysadmin who knows very little about Oracle DBA. (It's someone else's job.) Recently we had a problem whose solution was to do a complete restore from tape, thus losing that day's data. I would like to offer the problem to this group to see if a better solution could have been found.

Our databases are kept on different drives from the log files and the control files. The drive holding the control files failed, was replaced, and restored from tape. So, now the control files are "a day older" than the rest of the databases. In general terms, how could we resynchronize the controls, ie. bring them up to date?

Thanks,
David

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