Re: Trying to access deleted files

I can't help you with the Oracle problem. But I do have a slightly used meat cleaver if you'd lke to borrow it.

Daniel Morgan

broom wrote:

> Trying to access files deleted under Solaris.
>
> I've got Solaris 7, Veritas Oracle Edition, and Oracle 8.1.7.
>
> I've got about 20 tables in 80GB, spread across many file systems.
>
> Or had.
>
> I've got a manager who played DBA on TV. He fat fingered a
> rm /u*/oradata/sid/.det*.dbf
>
> I did this 10 years ago, and Oracle was able to export the
> "deleted" data, since it is not gone until the last program
> closes the file.
>
> New Oracle does it a bit differently. According to tech
> support, the ONLY connections that will be able to see
> the data are ones active at the time. All new connections
> will spawn a new process, which can't see the files.
>
> AARRGG!!
>
> I want Oracle 6!
>
> Is there any way to get to this data?
>
> It there anyway for Veritas to undelete the files?
>
> Please email as well as post, and I'll summarize this
> sorry tale.
>
> broom_at_cc3.com
Received on Wed Mar 13 2002 - 16:26:43 CST