Re: Totally confused - head crash with oracle HD

you should recover all files..

they're only useful if backup was 'cold' (db was down)

On 16 Jan 2002 07:01:58 -0800, simone.stoiber_at_jku.at (Simone Stoiber) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm in great trouble - the ORACLE database for our website and the
>DBMS are lost because of a head crash. All I could find "as backup"
>was
>1. ctl1.ora
>2. ctl2.ora
>3. indx.ora
>4. log1.ora
>5. log2.ora
>6. rbs1..
>7. sys1..
>8. usr1..
>9. tmp1..
>10. init...
>AND a 160 MB file called Institut without file extension, that
>contains data from the website.
>Unfortunately, I don't know when and how these files were created but
>the file Institut seems to be "young".
>
>Now I face following problems: I installed ORACLE on another machine,
>created a database and tried to attach the file Institut as ora data
>file to the USR tablespace.... nothing happened. I've read some
>messages in this newsgroup concerning recovering, mounting and so on
>and I must admit that I'm totally helpless :-(
>
>I depend on your help!
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Simone

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