Re: oracle recovery scenarios

  • From: Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Vishal Gupta <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:01:55 +0000

Yes DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET - Especially this!

2009/2/8 Vishal Gupta <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  Nice one.
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> Vishal
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Niall Litchfield
> *Sent:* 08 February 2009 13:30
> *To:* howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx
> *Cc:* oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: oracle recovery scenarios
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> of course in a real recovery situation maybe deciding that every website is
> potentially dangerous wouldn't be such a bad thing. I can see the
> conversation now
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> DBA: Well we had a recovery to do and so I followed the procedure on
> http://www.oraclewisdom.com/recovery
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> CEO: And now we've irretrievably lost the data
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> DBA: It would appear so unfortunately, the walkthrough was missing a vital
> step
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> CEO: And remind me again what we pay you for, what was it you pay raise
> application said again
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> DBA: er, er,
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> CEO: 'exceptional technical skills and first class judgement'
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> DBA: er, er
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> CEO And you ran something you found on the internet?
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> Niall
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> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> The other problem about such a manual is that knowledge grows and new
> methods are developed so I think logging a tar and googling (or Yahooing if
> google deice every website is dangerous again)) are essential in a recovery
> situation.
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> 2009/2/8 Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
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> I've been asked to write a 'recovery manual'
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> So if on holiday our developers can recover the database.
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> If I could I would publish it!
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> Anyway you can add corruption sub heading - with corrupt dbf , redo , temp
> as subs of that.
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> My books growing isnt it!
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> 2009/2/7 Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>
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> I don't do alot of recoveries, so when I need to do something, I
> always end up googling it. So I want to write myself some notes for
> some of the basic scenarios. Here is my list so far.
> I keep notes of activities I don't use very often. So I don't have to
> look them up again.
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> all of these assume I can use RMAN
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> 1. full recovery(with and without archivelog mode)
> 2. point in time recovery
> 3. flashback database
> 4. lost a redo log(both online and offline, with multiple redo log
> groups or without)
> 5. lost a datafile
> 6. restore control file
> 7. restore spfile
> 8. someone drops a table, so flash back table
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> Niall Litchfield
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Howard A. Latham

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