Re: System Crash, how to restore database?

It depends. If your week-old backups were done while the database was shutdown (cold backup), all you have to do is restore all the files. If your backups were made while the database was running (hot backup), then you have a lot of options to choose from ... only a few of which will be correct for your situation ... sometimes none of which will be correct. Your best bet in this case would be to contact Oracle tech support and have them walk you thru. If you just copied your files while the database was up without telling Oracle you were backing up the tablespaces, then you might be out of luck.

Sorry if this is bad news.

-Roger Crowley

"Winbatch" <winbatch_at_techie.com> wrote in message news:aiofhi$1ig$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> Note that I also have all control files, etc.
> "Winbatch" <winbatch_at_techie.com> wrote in message
> news:aioevj$sp6$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> > Hi,
> > Last week our AIX box crashed and we needed to start over with a clean
> > install. Luckily, we had week old backups of the system which included
> the
> > oracle database files. Is there anyway if I now reinstall oracle that I
> can
> > use my existing database files? We have no other source of the data we
> > need. What would be the procedure? Would I not have the install create
a
> > database? How do I take my .dbf files that I have backed up and making
> them
> > 'active'? THe oracle version we are using is 8.1.6.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 06 2002 - 08:41:08 CDT