Things do not get lost without any trace. What is very suspiciuos here is whole partition getting lost. If it was the storm causing it you`d probably end up with a fried hdd/ power supply. Just to be on the safe side, get a second opinion.Check /etc/fstab to make sure everything is mounted. Check history and last commands. Salut! Özgür Özdemircili http://www.acikkod.org Code so clean you could eat off it On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Bill Zakrzewski <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These are local drives, non-RAC, non-ASM, non-OCFS. No information was > found by the system administrator in the typical system log files. > > I have experienced system crashes in the past and had to recover databases > after power failures, but losing everything (and I mean everything) that > wasn't on the OS partition/filesystem is a new one to me. > > Thanks again > Bill > > > > > > -----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 > > >