Restoring & recovering in NOARCHIVELOG

Hi all.

We are working with Oracle 8.1.6 on Win NT in a production environment (don't blame me, It's heritage). The Database archiving mode is NOARCHIVELOG (again don't blame me). We do whole database backups daily al the end of the day (It's not a 24/7 DB). Due to requisites, we must be able to restore the status that the DB had at the beginning of the day (start) in order to reprocess (by external processes) all the activity of the day if necessary (this is easily done by restoring the last-night backup). But I'm wondering about recovering the DB if a HW problem occurs. Here is where my question comes out: If we use redo log files large enough to hold all the redo activities of a whole day we could not only restore the 'last-night cold backup' in order to reprocess, but recover the DB status to the instant before a HW failure as well by using the redo log files to roll forward. Am I right?

Thanks in advance.

Carlos. Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 05:26:06 CDT