Re: Disaster Recovery HELP!!

Did you just _hit_ cancel, or type the word 'cancel'? For the first, it figures, you're still recovering. When the latter, I'll leave it for the dba's

George wrote:

> Just a little background. I am using HP Chemstore which uses Oracle 7
> backend for a database. Do to a bad install of chemstore the db server
> needs to be rebuilt. I have taken an online backup of the database
> using backupexec with oracle agent. This has backed up the datafiles,
> the archived logs and caused oracle to produce a proper controlfile
> which was backed up. Now i have rebuilt nt server reinstalled oracle
> which comes up with a default database. Now to recover i replaced
> the datafiles, the archived log files and controlfiles with the backup
> version. There are no online redo logs to restore so i start the
> recover database until cancel using backup controlfile. it asks for
> the archive logs and goes along ok until it gets to a log that i don't
> have which i believe is in the online redo logs so i hit cancel and try
> to open the database with resetlogs at which time it complains that my
> syshpcs.ora datafile needs further recovery. When i try to recover it
> it asks for the log i dont have and now i am stuck. I thought resetlogs
> was a stop here open it up i don't care what i break type of thing?
> ANY help would be appreciated THANKs
>
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