Re: EXP/IMP due to corrupt blocks

  • From: "Richard Foote" <richard.foote@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:48:15 +1000

Hi Birkir,

If the "empty" corrupted blocks are not within a segment extent or are not
below the HWM of a segment, then you have a beautiful horse to ride on a
straight and wide course.

IE, you should be OK ;)

Test by exporting the tablespace (9i ?) in question would probably be
worthwhile.

Cheers

Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Birkir Bjornsson" <birkir@xxxxxxxx>
To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: EXP/IMP due to corrupt blocks


> Hi Richard
>
> There is no data in the corrupt blocks in the datafiles, so they are
> empty. So do you think that the export will fail
> because of empty corrupt blocks?
>
>
> Richard Foote wrote:
>
> >Hi Birkir,
> >
> >You maybe forgetting that your export will fail once it comes across one
of
> >the corrupted blocks !!
> >
> >You need to fix the corruptions which depends entirely on the nature of
the
> >corruption, what's actually corrupted, are the objects re-creatable, is
the
> >corruption in your backups (else restore and recover of datafiles could
be
> >an option), database version (dbms_repair), can you afford to lose the
> >corrupted data, is it in a LOB (nasty but solvable), investigate block
> >dumps, etc. etc.
> >
> >I've fixed plenty of corruptions in my time and it's usually a case of
> >horses for courses.
> >
> >But exp/imp is unlikely to be your solution.
> >
> >Good Luck
> >
> >Richard
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Birkir Bjornsson" <birkir@xxxxxxxx>
> >To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:47 PM
> >Subject: EXP/IMP due to corrupt blocks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I hava a database with corrupt blocks.  And I was thinking of exporting
> >>the database and then import it
> >>on another machine because of faulty hardware.
> >>
> >>So isnt this the right approach for this, create  the tablespaces, and
> >>users on the new database and then import from user to user?
> >>
> >>Is there anything im forgetting?
> >>
> >>Kind Regards
> >>Bippi
> >>
> >>
> >>
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