Are You Testing backup and recovery Scenarios....then you can do this...
Create Few Datafiles and redo on Floppy Media and then slide out the floppy
and see what happens.... Simulated media failure.
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HTH
Additions and Corrections Welcome.
Regards,
Ganesh R
"damorgan" <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message
news:3C5F0AE5.B1A4542B_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> Unplug the disk from the controller. But check with your hardware vendor
before
> doing this.
>
> I can not, and will not, be responsible for damage done on your hardware.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
> 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
>
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 03:09:15 CST
