Re: Restore question

unless I am missing something...

if I understood correctly, your situation is this:

1. you took a full hot DB backup
2. you shut DB down
3. some datafiles were lost/erased
4. You can't start your DB due to datafiles you've lost on step 3 and
now wandering what to do next

if the above is true then

all you have to do is normally restore + recover stuff you've lost on
step 3 (no old controlfile required, shutdown is irrelevant either)

if you've lost not system/undo type of stuff then you can even offline
drop missing datafiles, open your DB and restore missing files
thereafter, I blogged about it recently
(http://afatkulin.blogspot.com/2008/12/alter-database-datafile-offline-drop.html)

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:51 PM, J. Dex <cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to restore from a hot backup that was taken prior to a
> database being shutdown.  We had an RMAN hot backup running in archivelog
> mode.  The database was shutdown and them some files are lost before it was
> restarted  Isn't it possible to just point to the oldest controlfile that
> was taken during the last hot backup and restore from that?
>
>
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