Re: Recovery Question

On Jul 23, 3:36 pm, Cristian Cudizio <cristian.cudi..._at_yahoo.it> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 3:17 pm, Paul <paulwragg2..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > God I love helpful people - do you want me to spend an hour explaining
> > why we can't back up the data or do you just assume that in every
> > single situation you are right and the poster is an idiot? I stated
> > the data is not backed up for a reason, I even said don't bother
> > mentioning it.
> > We do not 'maintain the data' for anybody. We supply software to
> > customers. They maintain their own databases. Every now and again they
> > have a problem, either with the data, or with performance. As some of
> > our customers have very large databases, these are the best databases
> > for us to use for either problem investigation, or for performance
> > tuning. So we use them. They are not backed up as quite frankly we do
> > not give a stuff what happens to this data - we do not need to recover
> > it. Their databases contain confidential data, and part of the
> > agreement is that we have to either anonymise their database prior to
> > them shipping it, or we cannot back it up. Is that clear?
> > Now that I have wasted the time explaining that, back to the original
> > point.
> > The original database was running 10.2.0.2.0, with all data files
> > stored in d:\oracle\oradata\<Instance>. The instance was not running
> > when it died. It is the 32-bit version of WIndows and Oracle.
> > The machine has been rebuilt,but I now need all of the data to be in f:
> > \oracle\oradata\<instance>
> > I cannot just recreate the instance, then overwrite all of the files,
> > because as far as the control files are concerned the data files all
> > live in drive d: When I tried copying the original control files
> > across it gave the error "could not identifiy control file".
>
> > I do actually have an export of the data prior to the point at which
> > the machine died - all that actually happened by the way is that the
> > disk with the Oracle Home on it died completely.
> > I could quite easily recreate the instance and import the data, but I
> > hoped that I could find somebody helpful to allow me to expand my
> > experience.
> > I do not see that this would be a different process whether using 32-
> > bit or 64-bit,and I do not really see what ports have to do with
> > anything either. I realise that people here have vastly greater
> > experience than myself, which is why I was hoping for a bit of help,
> > maybe others would rather just put people trying to learn down rather
> > than coming up with any helpful suggestions.
>
> I'm not sure to have completely understand: if you have your origina
> control files you don't have to recreate them,
> where controlfiles are is written into spfile (you can use textual
> pfile to start with), then you have to start database in mount mode,
> make
> alter database rename datafile ...
> then you can open database.
> To increase your experience use with i've written and what is written
> on manuals (exact sintax)
>
> If windows 2003 , it is 32 bit or 64 has not a size limit of 2GB if
> you use NTFS that limit is of fat32 and i hope you have not a server
> with fat32 filesystem.
>
> Bye
>
> Cristian Cudizio
>
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P.S.
on my PC, with pentium D (i think 32 bit) and Windows XP i've files of 20GB.

bye

 Cristian Cudizio

http://oracledb.wordpress.com
http://cristiancudizio.wordpress.com Received on Mon Jul 23 2007 - 08:40:43 CDT