Re: rman recover/restore from backup

Hello Norm,

   I can spend couple hours of my time and send results to the group. No problem at all. (Anyone can do this even without prior experience - metalink filled up with the step by step notes on tspitr).

  What I afraid is that this would only add gas to the flames. If major thread participants (those who you mentioned) think opposite, I'll be glad to do this. If I'll fail - I'll apologize and will expect same from them.

Regards,

  Ron
  DBA Infopower
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"Norman Dunbar" <norman.dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message news:3078e2fe.0402191028.50bce0ec_at_posting.google.com...
> Eee, by 'eck. I go away for a couple of monthsand when I come back
> (briefly) there's all sorts of carnage going on.
>
> I'm with Richard on this one - it's been a hell of a thread and I love
> it.
>
> It's a hard world behind the firewall. No news, b*gg*r all email most
> of the time, and an 'interesting' situation of DBAing at this place.
> :o)
>
> No offence Sybrand - I'd hate to fall out with you - but I especially
> loved the bit where you gave advice on civil behaviour. Nice one :o)
>
>
> Anyway, here's my £0.02 as it were :
>
> "Ron" <support_at_dbainfopower.com> wrote in message
news:<GIudnVoTtMuB7a_d4p2dnA_at_comcast.com>...
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > Please, not like that ;-)
> > Can you please expand on may lack on English skills?
> > Should I send you my English literature scores to washington.edu?
>
> If ever someone was setting themselves up for a huge fall, this is it.
> I look forward to see what happens next.
>
> There is of course another way to sort out the 'minor' differences
> here, Ron, how about recreating a setup where you craete a test
> database (full of useful data) and bollox it in exactly the same way
> as the OP did, or in a similar way. Then, create a new one using dbca
> as the OP did, and recover it using your point in time recovery
> advice.
>
> Spool the exercise to a file and let us see it here. If it works, and
> I very much doubt that it will, I'm almost 100% certain that Howard
> will retract all he said about your advice, Sybrand will apologise
> profusely and Richard will also gladly refute what he said.
>
> I have to admit that I *am* 100% sure that it will not work, or at
> least not recover the database back to exactly the same pont in time
> as Howard's advice did.
>
> Given the situation here, I'd have taken Howard's advice any day. But
> then, I take advice from people I know have practiced (should that be
> practised - I can't remeber?) and experimented with the procedures
> they advise on. I've seen the results (and the hard work) that go into
> Howard's advice in the past - have a quick Google and see for yourself
> - so I know I can trust him and what he says.
>
> I have also seen him publicly apologise when he gave incorrect or
> insufficient advice too. Something you might want to consider
> sometime.
>
> If my english isn't up to scratch then don't attempt to correct me, I
> don't care because I'm not English and English is not my first
> language - I'm Scottish :o)
>
> (And on that note, I'm anticipating a huge defeat at the weekend when
> we play England in the 6 Nations Rugby. Just like last night at the
> hands of the Welsh in the footie. We are totally cr4p at the moment in
> everything, except curling I suppose - we won the Olympics at that!)
>
>
> Yours in anticipation,
>
> Norm.
>
> (Hopefully, I'll get to read some of the replies. This Googling is a
> major PITA.)
>
> And by the way, those who know me will also know that the email
> address is a spam trap - it no longer exists.
Received on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 02:28:23 CST