Re: Upgrade gone bad...

Hi all

I was able to start up the NT Backup Manager, and do a 'proper' backup of all the datafiles. My question is now, will 8.1.6 be able to recover a backup from 8.0.5?

Thanks,

Christian

"Christian Holm" <christian_at_neholm.dk> wrote in message news:8ro3qp$89l$1_at_news.inet.tele.dk...
> Hi all
>
> I've been trying all day to update our Oracle 8.0.5 database to Oracle
> 8.1.6. I installed 8.1.6 into a new home, and everything installed fine. I
> then started the migration utility after making a copy of all the files in
> the /database directory.
>
> Halfway through the migration, error-messaged starting to appearing,
 stating
> that the instance was down. I confirmed this and tried to restart the
> services, but got loads of error-messages. I've been trying to get it up
 and
> running again, but can't. I seems that all the configuration files is
 messed
> up. Does anyone have a step-by-step way of starting the database, listener
> etc. from the command-line?
>
> The database is fairly small (< 500 mb), and only contains a few users.
 What
> is important though is the data. I can recreate the users and such, I just
> need the data stored in the database.
>
> So my question is, can I uninstall 8.0.5 and 8.1.6, and install 8.1.6 from
> scratch, and then import the database from the database-files? If yes,
 how?
> If no, what can I do then?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Christian Holm
>
Received on Sat Oct 07 2000 - 16:52:34 CDT