On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility. I > found a large tar file which could be deleted without issue. It was in > an oracle production directory area. Due to a bug in ncdu, ( > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&aid=2829950&group_id=200175&atid=972449) > it didn't delete the highlighted item, but the one next to it, which was > the oracle production database. Recovery was easy to do from snapshot > files from the database.
I don't think that is the full story. Oracle databases do not consist of a single file; there are many. Control files, tablespace files, undo segments, redo logs, etc, etc. And if the database is properly organised, loss of a single file should not present any problem at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
