You can use command: Recover database using backup controlfile until cancel ; And then cancel recovery at some point in time before the crash. Did you loose all files after the crash ? -----Original Message----- From: Manjula Krishnan [mailto:oradba.la@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:39 PM To: Hameed, Amir Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Recovery Scenario So, I just restore the datafiles (from day1), backup control file from day 1 and then issue recover database until cancel, and supply archivelogs until time xx:xx and I can recover completely? On 7/21/05, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes you can. If your database crashed due to some corruption reasons > then you may want to apply logs just before the time when the crashed > took place. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manjula Krishnan > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:08 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Recovery Scenario > > Say I have the following scenario. > > Day 1: Hot Backup - all files backup successfully > Day 2: Hot Backup - one file does not back up > Day 3: Database crashes > > Using Day 1 backup, can I restore to current time assuming I have all > archive logs needed? > > Thanks, > > Manjula > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l