Re: Problem with control files

Hi,

Tanks a lot for all your answers. It was effectively a disk problem, the disk crash this morning! Fortunately I was able to copy one of the control file and the new server work as fine as the first.

Thank you again.

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Marco Girouard
Systems Administrator

Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:<3E8E2A75.6A8123FE_at_telusplanet.net>...


> Marco Girouard wrote:

> 

> > Hi,

> >

> > I'm kind of newbie in the Database field so no flaming please.

>  

> > Don't know if this issue has been answer in the past but few houre of

> > newsgroups searching doesn't come up with anything.

> 

> This kind of introduction will usually elicit a serious attempt to help

> ... welcome to the club!  (We tend to flame mainly when we get the feeling

> the person is trying to avoid effort of helping themself.)

> 

> > I'm currently trying to make a oracle 8i cold backup (windows 2000

> > OS).  What I'm trying to do is shutdown the database, copy the file I

> > want somewere else on the server restart the database and the copy

> > will be put on tape on the folowing backup, simple as that!

> 

> Yes, this sounds straight forward.

> 

> > My problem is, I'm able to copy all files exept the control files.  As

> > soon has I try to copy the control files, the server froze for about

> > 30 seconds and give me an "CRC Error" message.

> 

> Several things come to mind off hand:

> 1) The database is not truly down - perhaps you tried the copy before it

> confirmed shutdown

> 2) A disk problem

> 3) A problem with the copy command - are you using a third party program

> that includes an error check in the before/after images?

> 4) The disk is not locally attached and the disk's server has not properly

> flushed the disk cache

> 

> Is the problem happening with ALL control files, or just one of the set.

> If it's just one copy, you should be OK since they are duplicated

> 

> /Hans

> 

> 

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