Re: How to simulate a disk failure

To answer you specific question, you can't delete them because Oracle is using them and NT ( or any other OS as far as I know) will not you delete a file that is in use...

Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>Leigh Gold wrote:
>>
>> We have a test machine which we use to test our backup and recovery
>> procedure.
>>
>> I was trying to simulate a disk failure by deleting datafiles from a
>> particular disk drive (D) but kept getting 'sharing violation' error. Oracle
>> is running at that time and not other users are on. Any idea why I couldn't
>> delete those files?
>>
>> It is Win NT 4.0 with oracle 8.1.6.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Leigh
>
>'ocopy' is designed for backing up datafile whilst they are still open,
>ie, 'ocopy datafile-name backup-location'. I haven't tried, but maybe
>you could try 'ocopy piece-of-junk datafile-name'
>
>hth
>connor

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