Fellow list members, I received the following email from a
reader a few minutes ago. If you skip down to where he talks
about backup, you'll see that he's in trouble with a
database that won't recover. I've already suggested that he
open a TAR, and that he supply more specifics as to error
messages and the like, but maybe someone on this list can
draw some conclusions from what he's told me so far. If
you're good at recovery, have a look at what he says. I'll
post his email address later if he says its ok, and I'll
pass on any advice/suggestions I receive in the meantime.
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Jonathan Gennick
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Tuesday, May 01, 2001, 10:27:51 PM, X wrote:
BC> Hi Jonathan,
BC> I always read and like your articles in the Oracle
BC> Magazine.
BC> Could you please give me a moment of your time ..
BC> I have some couple of pressing problems and questions
BC> if you don't mind as i am under fire at work ..
BC> I have trouble with some of the Oracle databases that
BC> i manage on Sun Solaris platform, sometimes i have my
BC> shutdowns hanging and this takes a very long time to
BC> complete. Also, hanging problems with some of the sql
BC> statements. Could you lend a hand about any possible
BC> clues as to what i should do or where i should look
BC> for answers.
BC> My last question is about hotback.
BC> I ran a hot backup yesterday and tried recovering
BC> today. I was faced with an Oracle error saying system
BC> tablespace needs more recovery and that open resetlogs
BC> will get an error after automatically applying the
BC> redo logs.
BC> My backup strategy went this way,
BC> i created a backup shell script and
BC> i put all tablespaces in hotbackup mode at the same
BC> time with this syntax..
BC> select 'alter tablespace' || tablespace_name ||'begin
BC> backup;'
BC> from dba_tablespaces
BC> where status <> 'INVALID';
BC> I copied my datafiles to backup using the syntax below
BC> ...
BC> !cp /u02/oradata/prod/system01.dbf /backup/prod
BC> !cp ....
BC> !cp ....
BC> !cp ....
BC> !cp ....
BC> then ended backup the same way as i began backup
BC> with the ||'end backup;'
BC> I backed up my controlfile
BC> and everything went well. Today, I restored my
BC> datafiles from backup and i was greeted with the
BC> problem i just expalined to you.
BC> I am the only dba DBA at this location
BC> and i need some advise on what to do as this is a
BC> serious issue with my supervisor.
BC> Thanks,
BC> Bill
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