I was living in Ukraine, Kharkov. Now moved to another place due to war with Russian. Back there in Kharkov I had HP ProLiant server with Oracle database. Before escape city I did copy of file system to my laptop. Oracle Linux installed on laptop.
Is it possible to restore/run database instance with all my database schemas/users from that copy of filesystem?
I'm Java and PL/SQL developer. But I'm not Oracle administer, Oracle is quite complex system and it hard to run it for me from copy of filesystem.
As well, I managed to get all 4 SAS drives from server and took them with me. But I do not have a server here, I'll try to find someone who has one.
Please guide me or give some ideas what could I do to run database again. Or export and import data to new database.
The following will work if you have the same file paths as on your original Oracle database.
Create new database.
Shutdown immediate;
Change your command window to the same directory that the backups are in.
Launch RMAN with new database as target
The following are the rman commands you will be issuing:
startup nomount;
restore controlfile from '<<file path to control file>>';
shutdown immediate;
startup mount;
restore database;
recover database;
alter database open resetlogs;
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Can anyone help me on the below?
Is it possible to create backup jobs in oracle pluggable databases or the backup jobs can be created only on the root container database?
RMAN can execute on a PDB as well. You need a user with SYSBACKUP privileges to connect directly to the PDB. See this link for specifics:
https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/multitenant-rman-backup-recovery-cdb-and-pdb-12cr1#:~:text=
I am new to Oracle databases. I have installed DBeaver (never used this before too) to connect to the database.
I have created a connection (which I believe is called database) and now I am able to see the database tables and everything. How do I take the backup of the Oracle Database in DBeaver so I can use it locally for test purposes before making any change on live database?
I can't find any option to take the backup of connection/database.
To do a proper backup of your Oracle Database, you should use the oracle provided utility, Recovery Manager. It's a command line interface that's called from your DB server shell prompt via 'RMAN'
You can also use Data Pump to export all or part of a database that can be used to import to another database...not really used for recovery of an existing database.
I'm not aware of your tool having interfaces for either of these Oracle features.
You might not need a backup at all for your needs, take a look at Oracle Flashback Technology.
DBeaver does not support oracle database export import. See details here:
https://dbeaver.com/docs/wiki/Backup-Restore/
You need to run the sqlplus tool to create a folder where oracle is going to import/export database dumps. Login should happen as sys as sysdba and enter the password you previously entered during database server installation. Example:
sqlplus sys/[your password] as sysdba
After you successfully logged into sqlplus run the following command (don't forget to set to a different folder that you prefer to use):
create or replace directory DATA_PUMP_DIR as 'D:\Database Backups';
Once this is done exit from sqlplus and enter the following command into the command line (again no sqlplus should be used here)
expdp sys/[your password]#localhost:1521/[listener name] file=your-database-dump-file.dmp owner=[your schema]
Once this is done and finished you can zip your database dump if you would like to upload it somewhere else. (I had 9 GB dump and the zipped size was 1.6 GB)
my server had been attacked by a ransomware .rapid and all my data had been encrypted , luckily for me the oracle home folder is not encrypted - yet - and most of the files including the datafiles folder and tablespaces are still accessible
Can any One please tell me how to recover my database objects?
no backup is available , only oracle home folder -most of it-
EDIT :
The System is broken , I am trying to know witch files to collect and copy that will enable me to recover my database files from another system
when I try to log into sqlplus throw cmd I get the following error :
'sqlplus' is not recognized as an internal or external command ,
operable program or batch file.
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EDIT :
FILES THAT I STILL HAVE ACCESS TO - NOT ENCRYPTED -
Okay. If you can find an init.ora file on your server, that's the PFILE - initialization parameter file - that's the last thing missing to easily copy your database to a new server. If you can't find it, that's ok - it'll just be a little harder. As long as you have the datafiles, you can eventually get your database back.
Basically, you'll want to follow steps 2-8 in the link I posted. You can also find some helpful info in the Oracle guide to manually creating a database in Windows. I'll walk you through them.
Shutdown your old database (if it's still running). This will make sure your datafiles are in a consistent state for copying. Probably stopping the Windows Service would be the easiest way to do that if you can't access sqlplus.
Copy the data to your new server. I'm assuming it'll be in the same location, D:\app\Administrator\oradata\VTC\
Make a copy of the control file CONTROL01.CTL and name it create_db.sql (EDIT: I was assuming that this was a backup to trace ascii version of the control file, but it sounds like this is the binary file)
Edit create_db.sql. Where it says CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "MY_DB" NORESETLOGS, change it to CREATE CONTROLFILE SET DATABASE "MY_DB" RESETLOGS. Make note of whatever "MY_DB" is - this is your database name. Most people make it the same as the SID. I normally do RESETLOGS which throws out the old redo logs, but you could try keeping them with NORESETLOGS if that works for you.
Remove or comment out the lines that say RECOVER DATABASE and ALTER DATABASE OPEN;. Make sure the paths for the datafiles and logfiles look correct. Save the file.
If you couldn't find your init.ora to copy, I think this very minimal one will work for you, although you'll want to fix your memory settings later. Create it in the same folder.
DB_NAME=MY_DB
INSTANCE_NAME=MY_DB
SERVICE_NAMES=MY_DB
CONTROL_FILES = ("D:\app\Administrator\oradata\VTC\CONTROL01.CTL")
DB_FILES=100
Create an Oracle Database Windows Service. Afterwards check Services to make sure it's running.
oradim -NEW -SID MY_DB -STARTMODE manual -PFILE "D:\app\Administrator\oradata\VTC\init.ora"
Log in to your new Oracle instance as SYSDBA. There's no database yet.
cd D:\app\Administrator\oradata\VTC\
set ORACLE_SID=MY_DB
sqlplus / as sysdba
Create the database, using the control file from the old server as a script.
#create_db.sql
If everything comes back OK, run:
alter database open
I have a pluggable database and I want to backup.Now,I did this in windows:
set ORACLE_SID=ORE(My pdb name)
echo ORACLE_SID
rman target /
But,I ran into these errors:
RMAN-06171(Not connected to target database)
Can anyone please advice what my target db should be? I want to backup my pdb and not container db.
You should connect to the container database in order to perform backups. After that you can run
BACKUP PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb_name;
Refer to the official documentation:
Backing Up PDBs with RMAN
Also, your connection does not work, because there is no database instance with name of the pluggable database - only the container instance is running and pdbs are stored in it.
Restoration and Recovery of PDB (Pluggable database), we need to ensure that valid rman backup available.
SQL>restore pluggable database PDBORCL1;
refer the useful post: -
https://readmeout.com/restore-and-recover-pluggable-database-pdb-from-rman-backup/
I'm a SQL Server DBA, but we have an Oracle 10g database that I need to start performing daily backups on. We do not have Enterprise Manager. Is there a way to schedule a daily backup in Oracle like in SQL Server?
I apologize if this question is severely elementary for Oracle people, but I've had a very tough time trying to research this and coming up with an answer other than "Use EM".
Easiest in your case is to make a simple Windows Batch script that set ORACLE_HOME and PATH and uses rman to make the backup. Schedule the script in the Windows Task scheduler. Assuming your database is production and because of this runs in archive log mode your script could be something like this:
(I am not a Windows expert so subtle errors might be easy to spot for you)
rman_backup.bat:
ORACLE_SID=your_oracle_sid
ORACLE_HOME=d:/where/your/installation/is
PATH=%ORACLE_HOME%/bin;%PATH%
rman cmdfile=your_rman_actions_script.rman log=your_log_file.log
your_rman_action_script.rman looks like
connect target=/
backup DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;
For documentation look at Oracle 10g database documentation and start with 2 day dba. After that check out the backup docu found here Administration
I would (but then, my background is more on Unix, less on Windows) do the scheduling from outside the database, using the OS Scheduler to run a backup script. Assuming that no real backup system is available.
In the beginning of backup, you would run a SQL script to place the tablespaces in backup mode (ALTER TABLESPACE x BEGIN BACKUP), then back up the tablespace data files, and after that restore normal mode (ALTER TABLESPACE x END BACKUP). PL/SQL can be used here for looping over all tablespaces.
After that, you'd back up the control file (ALTER SYSTEM BACKUP CONTROLFILE ...), and finally you would rotate the redo logs enough times that all relevant log data has been archived, and back up the archive logs.
And as of doing incremental backups f.ex. throughout the working week, just do the log rotation & archive log copy part.