Re: backup and recovery question

Try using symbolic links instead of real hw So don´t use /u01 for the mount point but create a symbolic link name /ofa1 pointing to /u01
Then if your hw ever fails, copy your files to /u0x and recreate your link /ofa1 to point to /u0x.
Thats all.

Greetings
Andy

kal121_at_my-deja.com schrieb:

> I have a basic backup and recovery question. Right now I am practicing,
> this is not a real scenario:
>
> Let's say my hard drive gets destroyed. Fortunately, I made a cold
> backup in noarchivemode the day before. Problem is, I have to put my
> backed-up datafiles in a new location, say /u02 instead of /u01. The
> backed-up control files only know about the old datafile locations,
> i.e.) /u01. How do I tell my backed-up copy of the control file about
> the new locations of the datafiles? Unless it knows about the new
> location, it can't open the database.
>
> (And obviously, I wouldn't put all my datafiles on /u01, but I'm trying
> to keep it simple.)
>
> Sorry is this a basic question for you all!
>
> Thanks
>
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Received on Thu May 18 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT