Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jgar the jorrible Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Another Newbie Question: How to restore data .bkp w/o info on orig. db settings? Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:56:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3b18190d-ccdf-4e2d-91b6-71182c5d7f56@y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <3cc94549-6d5d-4a61-916d-bae2523312cd@r10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.232.112.189 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236113802 23169 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2009 20:56:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.232.112.189; posting-account=tpQovAkAAABNoH5bwsZAiff2L0zxGwdv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.cambrium.nl On Mar 3, 10:37=A0am, jfal...@socket.net wrote: > First, I apologize for the dumb question. =A0We are not Oracle Gurus, > but are given a dataset we need to examine before passing along. =A0In > the past they gave us exp files and we figured out a way to get into > them by adding all the usernames it asked for and then using the imp > command to bring the db live. =A0This time a different company gave us > there files, but they gave them to us in .bkp format. =A0There is are > three folders(autobackup, backupset, onlinelog). =A0Under the first two > there are subfolders with a date and inside a file with .bkp. =A0The > thrird are 2 .log files. =A0I get from researching that I need to use > the rman commands, but I don't know db names, dbid etc from the > original. =A0Any links to how I should proceed? =A0Thanks for your help! http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/recov004.htm= #sthref571 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/backrec.htm#= sthref2378 jg -- @home.com is bogus. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/02/1b2hedge195935-pension-f= unds-may-be-lost-fraud/?uniontrib