How does one manually corrupt a database (database file, redo logs and backups)

  • From: "Charles Schultz" <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Oracle-L Freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:07:49 -0500

Funny topic, eh? I am practicing backup and recovery procedures and finding
that recovery is quite easy since I never have corrupted blocks to worry
about. So, how do I practice for a "worse case" scenarios? Are there white
papers out there that go over this kind of stuff? I found several "Best
Practices" in metalink (look Mladen, not plural), but that is not exactly
what I am looking for as they tell you how to fix the problem, not make the
problem. I have tried overwriting the binary files, but being simpled-minded
I was using vi. I thought about using the unix dd utility - unfortuantely I
do not have enough experience to be surgical (easy to mess up the first few
blocks, but what about the middle?). Can I use the same method to isolate
corruption to various parts of the database (ie, database files, redo logs
or rman backups)?

I have a gut feeling that someone has already documented this, so if this is
the case, please point me there.
Thanks,

PS - I have been practicing on 9iR2. Yet anything above 9iR1 would be fine.

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Charles Schultz

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