I got to thinking a little more about this. If you have an oraInventory directory under your product directory, I think you need to back that one up too ... at least it wouldn't hurt.
-----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I believe that is the easiest/cleanest way to restore from patches esp. when you don't know what those patches contain. -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Gurus, I was just given a project to maintain a Computerized Maintenance Management System. When I asked the companies support staff how to roll back patches in the backend Oracle Database (Ver. 8174), they said that there was no way to do this. I'm guessing I could use logminer just incase a patch doesn't work. Would this be a good solution, or are there other (better) ways of safeguarding myself when it comes to patching? Obviously, I will be applying the patches to a test instance first, but I don't want to have to go back to restore from a backup if the patch causes unexpected issues. TIA! ****************************************** Scott Stefick UNIX Systems Administrator Oracle Certified Professional DBA Wm. Rainey Harper College 847.925.6130 ****************************************** -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Scott Stefick INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).