RE: bbed?
- From: "Richard J. Goulet" <rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "John D Parker" <orclwzrd@xxxxxxxxx>, <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:07:38 -0500
John,
MANY years ago, on Microsoft OS/2 Oracle V6.0.33 I had a truly
fouled up database that the network administrator kept "forgetting" to
backup. Well one night it died a miserable death & had to be put back
together somehow. We did not have a current backup & someone had
deleted without backing up the archive redo logs (same person who
"forgot" to backup the database, but claimed he always did). Anyway, I
opened a SEV1 tar with Oracle, over the phone in those days. A few
hours later I get a third call back from Oracle. The individual there
wants to know if I can get to the file in question. Well of course I
can. So he asks if I can put it into debug!! We then spent half an
hour "repairing" the file by bypassing the corrupt block (actual disk
failure going on underneath). When we fired the DB back up I was
surprised that it worked, just long enough to take a full export before
it once again died miserably.
Power in the right hands is a good thing, power in the wrong hands
is a death sentence waiting to be fulfilled. Lets hope that doesn't
happen with bbed.
Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA
45 Bartlett St Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA
Tel.: 598.573.1978 |Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795
RGoulet@xxxxxxxxxx
: POWERING TRANSFORMATION
________________________________
From: John D Parker [mailto:orclwzrd@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:19 PM
To: Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Richard J. Goulet; wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx;
oracle-l
Subject: RE: bbed?
It may be a dangerous tool, but it can save your bacon when the fire is
hot. I've used it to enable me to recover completely unrecoverable
databases. Tread lightly, as with most very powerful tool, you can do
lots of damage fast if you make a mistake.
John
"Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which is why it's password protected. But, let's not open that
can of
worms again....
To anyone who wants to know the password:
If you really want to use it, you should be clever enough to
find the
password. Don't ask people to tell you what it is. ;-)
-Mark
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Mark J. Bobak
Senior Oracle Architect
ProQuest Information & Learning
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which
shouldn't be
done at all. -Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard J.
Goulet
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:27 AM
To: wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l
Subject: RE: bbed?
Bill,
I just looked through a 10.2.0.2 system we have & did not find
bbed either, but I followed the command to build it, namely make
-f
ins_rdbms.mk $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/bbed in the
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
directory & the darned thing built as stated. And to boot there
is a
target in the make file for the stinker. I think this is one
tool that
could really cause a lot of trouble.
Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA
45 Bartlett St Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA
Tel.: 598.573.1978 |Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795
RGoulet@xxxxxxxxxx
: POWERING TRANSFORMATION
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William
Wagman
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:40 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: bbed?
Someone just passed this on to me. I checked a coupl of my
systems and
didn't find it. It's an editor for modifying dbfs. The page:
refers to ways of misusing the tool. The PDF paper has a few
pages of
instructions, then some interesting examples of the tool's uses
starting
on page 25.
Bill Wagman
Univ. of California at Davis
IET Campus Data Center
wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx
(530) 754-6208
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