Saturday, September 22, 2001, 2:00:17 PM, you wrote:
dvc> I have a "what if" question.
dvc> Say you had a complete cold backup, including control files from a few days
dvc> ago.
dvc> You also had all the archive logs for the past few days.
dvc> Today you lost your server and had to recover.
dvc> You lay down all the database files, including the control files.
If you restore the control files, then you can't apply the
archive logs. (That's to the best of my knowledge) I have,
however, used cold backups as the basis for recovering
databases running in archive log mode. The process I used
was always to restore the datafiles and issue the recover
command.
You also don't want to restore the online redo logs. I did
that once by mistake during a practice recovery. Fortunately
it was practice on a test instance<grin>.
Best regards,
Jonathan Gennick
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