Re: Recovery - online redo log issue (ORA-00338)

From: Brian E Dick <bdick_at_cox.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:17:25 GMT
Message-ID: <FHzv8.2618$3F4.149748@news2.east.cox.net>

For 8i check out "resetlogs" in the following documentation.

Oracle8i Backup and Recovery Guide
Chapter 5 Performing Media Recovery

"Andy" <enzoweb_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8d4033cd.0204171642.1108f368_at_posting.google.com...
> I am doing some backup and recovery testing, and have a database
> running in noarchivelog mode.
>
> I backed up all the files except the online redo logs as recommended
> by Oracle.
>
> I started the database, added a table, then stopped the database.
>
> I then deleted all the files, restored them from backup and when
> trying to start the database got:
>
> ORA-00338: log 1 of thread 1 is more recent than controlfile
> ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1:
> '/smt/oradata2/bkptest/log/redolog1a.rdo'
> ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1:
> '/smt/oradata3/bkptest/log/redolog1b.rdo'
>
> Der, of course it is, because I made some changes.
>
> So now what do I do? I have tried creating more log groups and
> dropping the existing ones, but it still won't let me open the
> database.
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 08:17:25 CDT