did you have a backup? Alan.- On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Taylor, Chris David < ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You may want to provide more detail, unless you just want to know if anyone > has ever had anything like this happen before, which in my case would be no. > > I assume these are SAN volumes presented to the server in question? If so, > who is the SAN provider? You'll probably want to open up a case with them > as well. > > Are you running RAC and OCFS2 (or OCFS) filesystems? Or non-RAC, non-ASM, > non-OCFS ? > > What is the disk space reported on the affected mount points? Does it > match up with what is supposed to be there? > > Have you checked the /var/log/messages file? (I think that's the right > path - been a little while since I was on RHEL) > > Any filesystem cleanup utilities running that are scheduled for end of > month or anything? > > Any cron jobs scheduled to cleanup Oracle log files or anything, especially > using wildcards? > > It is highly unlikely that a storm would cause data to get deleted. > Chances are one of the following: > > 1.) SAN and Server connectivity was lost and files are still on the SAN but > the server doesn't see them (due to the storm) > Or > 2.) A filesystem utility was run that inadvertently deleted data it > shouldn't have > Or > 3.) Someone maliciously deleted files > Or > 4.) any number of other system specific events occurred unrelated to the > storm > > > > > Chris Taylor > Sr. Oracle DBA > Ingram Barge Company > Nashville, TN 37205 > Office: 615-517-3355 > Cell: 615-354-4799 > Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential > and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please > notify the sender immediately and delete the contents of this message > without disclosing the contents to anyone, using them for any purpose, or > storing or copying the information on any medium. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Bill Zakrzewski > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 8:38 AM > To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Urgent!! > > We had some very bad storms in the area last night and this morning our > database server appears to have been wiped almost clean (the server did not > fail or reboot - uptime was 17 days). The oracle software is gone and the > database files are also no longer visible. The server was setup with > logical volumes and they all appear to be empty. Has anyone had something > similar happen? Opening a ticket with Red Hat, but figured I would hit the > list to see if I get a quicker response. > > RH 5 > Oracle 10.2.0.4.0 > > Thanks, > -Bill-- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >