Re: Restoring A Harddisk Image!

[cross postings removed]

Daniel Vollmer wrote in message <380f732d_at_news.datacomm.ch>...

>We're using Oracle 8.05 on our NT 4.0 Server. Last week we've shut down NT
>and did boot the server with a DOS floppy to do a harddisk image backup
>with Ghost v.5.
>Today we've restored the whole harddisk image. NT works fine, but now while
>trying to "startup" the DB we get an error something like "RBS.....dbf file
>error". Why? Is this a date problem? The whole database was really in a
>stable condition when we shut down the server last week. We don't yet
>(unfortunately) know a lot about Oracle, but HOW can we manage to get that
>database to work again? PLEASE HELP!!!

Look at the ALERT log file for your Oracle instance. It will contain more detailed info as to why there is an error. The filename will be alert<sid>.log where <sid> is the system identifier of your database (e.g. ORCL is the default sid for the Oracle starter database). Hmmm... I see with Oracle8 it seems not to be <sid>alert.log.

Anyway, the file should be in a LOG or TRACE subdirectory in your Oracle \ORANT home directory.

I suggest finding the file, looking up the problem (there also may have been trace files created), and then getting back to this newsgroup with more info.

regards,
Billy Received on Fri Oct 22 1999 - 02:26:15 CDT