look at this : http://republika.pl/mathnoid/index_EN.html
"AK" <ak_at_ak.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> You'll be telling this one to your dba mates in the pub...I'm sure of it.
>
> I have a development database which lost an unmirrored and not backed up
> disk. This disk happens to have held the system, users, rbs datafiles
> (amongst a couple more that I dont care about).
>
> No I do not have a tape backup of the system datafile. No I did not
> design this incredibly silly setup. However, I am now responsible for it.
>
> I have rebuilt the host (TRU64 4.0G - yes it is an old version :), and
> have things to a point where I have an instance running, database
> mounted and I cannot open the database (obviously). I have all the
> datafiles used by the development team online and available. The disks
> that did not get fried still have 'usable' datafiles on them.
>
> In this 'closed' state can I grab the data from these datafiles? I have
> one in particular that I would like to recover the data from.
>
> Without media recovery as an option can I rebuild a system datafile?
> Not sure about this and I have been going at it for a while so I cant
> focus on the screen very well.... :|
>
> Please help.
>
> -A
>
Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 00:14:30 CDT
