Copy ASM files to filesystem when DB not mounted?

hi,
as far as i know, ASM files can only be copied to the file system by using RMAN.
my problem: i´ve got one data and one log partition (both ASM).
disks of data partition crashed, log partition is ok. i need the archived logs from the last backup timestamp until now, but can not access them with rman because i cannot mount the database.
any ideas how to solve this problem?
thanks!

Many ideas (if I would know the ASM version). Fortunately we don't have to start with Oracle version 6.
10gR1 would be bad
10gR2 read this, how to transfer ASM datafiles outside RMAN:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/06-mar/o26asm.html
11gR1 read about asmcmd:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b31107/asm_util.htm#BJEGEAAJ
Werner

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I looked at the change log of my check-in and noticed that the errors occur for Angular script references that were updated. New angular references (adds in the TFS changeset) are being copied without errors. Example: angular-animate.js was edited
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<Content Include="Scripts\angular-animate.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-animate.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-aria.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-aria.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-cookies.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-cookies.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-csp.css" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-loader.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-loader.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-messages.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-messages.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-mocks.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-resource.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-resource.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-route.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-route.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-sanitize.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-sanitize.min.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-scenario.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-touch.js" />
<Content Include="Scripts\angular-touch.min.js" />
Is there anything I forgot to mention that would help me figure out what is going on?
What else can I try with the exception of rolling back the changeset and re-adding the nuget package?
Thank you very much in advance!
-Igor
-Igor

Hi Igor,
For your situation, make sure you checked in your source files after updating Angular. You can also check the whether the foders for the Angular reference are under source control in source settings tab of your build definition.
You can also build locally using MSBuild to see if the building works fine. We have to make sure local build succeed before VSO build since TFS build use MSBuild as its default compiler. Check the links below to see if they are helpful:
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CONSOLIDATION APPROACH: I did start to create file folders names A, B, C and group file folders under them to reduce clutter, since those header folders can be closed down when not in use, but now I am wondering if I should have done that alphabetization to the main backup drive rather than to the partitioned backup drive.
My goal is to consolidate the two drives down to one, delete as many images along the way that I know I will never miss, then backup the catalog and export it to an external drive and then copy that to yet another drive for offside storage. Does this sound like the proper plan? Last time it took almost 24 hours and over a terabyte to export the catalog.
DUPLICATION: I also have many file folders that have the exact same image in them. One portfolio image may actually be in eight different folders, with the exact file, file name, file size, and date, even though I always have checked "no duplicates on import," How can this be? What is the best way to sort through duplicates? Why are the files in some of the duplicate folders not in numerical order? If I do a search and call up a file # and find 15 duplicates, the only way I can find where those duplicates reside is to take each duplicate, right click to Locate Folder in Library, then once I find it, I have to go back to All Photographs>Text.search for file #, go to the second duplicate, right click to Locate Folder in Library, then once I find it, I have to do it all again. Is there a simpler way to see all the occurrences in their respective folder locations at once?
SEARCH BY FILE FOLDER NAME ONLY: I also find I can't search for a file using a folder name (for example, "John_Doe"). I can only search by file #, keywords, or camera/lens/date, etc. Why will it not work to use All Photographs>Text>search for Doe? In other words, if I didn't keyword the individual files as John Doe, I can't search for them by that moniker.
BACKUP: It also appears that the only way I can back up the catalog is to shut down LR. Really?!
FOLDER LIST PRINTOUT: Is there a way to print out the Folder list (other than a screen shot)? I have so many file folders on each drive since I sort not by Year/Month/Date but by subject. It makes trying to compare duplicate folders quite unwieldy.
SLOW RESPONSE: And finally, as though that weren't enough, why does LR4 continually blink to a white screen after each keystroke? Takes forever just to be able to click through images, view info after hovering, etc. All other programs are closed down and the operating system shows very little memory being used.

A brief and probably non-helpful answer: I know of no way to eliminate your large amount of duplicates other than by repetitive, tedious manual effort.
*There has got to be a simpler way.*
I hope you're right, but I don't think there is a simpler way.
BACKUP: It also appears that the only way I can back up the catalog is to shut down LR. Really?!
Yes, really

After copying a file from NTFS to HFS volume, file size changed when viewing in Windows

Hi guys,
I have a Mac Air running Mavericks on a HFS partition and Windows 7 on a BOOTCAMP NTFS partition. I have some files that I want to read/write from/to both systems. Since OS X can't write NTFS and Windows can't write HFS either, and I don't want to use any 3rd-party tools/drivers, I have to adopt a "stupid" way: in OS X, I copy those files from NTFS to its HFS partition, make changes, then switch to Windows and sync them back to NTFS.
The problem is, after I copied a file from NTFS to HFS in OS X, it seemed ok. But when I switched to Windows, the very copied file in HFS partition had its size changed (bigger) although I didn't make any changes to it in OS X yet. This happens to almost every file I copied, text and binary. For those text files, I tried to open it with EditPlus in Windows and EditPlus reports the correct size on the status bar.
How could this happen?

I am not sure if this is what your seeing but...
The same unaltered file on two different volumes might use different amounts of disk space. This is because a 'disk' is divided in to 'blocks' and a block (also historically known as a 'sector') is a certain minimum size. So if disk-1 has a block size of 512 bytes and disk-2 has a block size of 1024 bytes then a file containing just 10 bytes will use up twice as much space on disk-2 as disk-1 even though it is the exact same file.
Beyond that, Macs can add additional information like Spotlight tags, labels, icons, etc. which make a file bigger. If you are modifying a file then presumably that also implies adding additional content e.g. for a Word document more text and this will make it bigger. Also depending on some programs are configured or designed 'deleting' text may only mark it as deleted and not really delete. This can apply to older versions of Word which has a 'Fast Save' feature, new versions have removed this and do a proper delete.
You would have to give more details like what you are doing to the document, what kind of document, and what the two sizes are.
Finally, there is one other potential difference, some systems and manufacturers use 1024 as a unit for measuring file and disk sizes, some use 1000. It will be the same number of bytes in each case but 1000 bytes in one case would exactly equal 1MB, and in the other it would be 0.9765MB.

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