Newbie lamer restore question

I have a .DMP file from an Oracle 8.1.7 server, which I need to restore into a different server runn 8.1.6. How do I do it, and do I need any additional information, control files etc?
I'm a SQL Server DBA, and don't know where to start... :-(
TIA,
Alasdair.
MCSE MCSD MCDBA

I tried. however it said input/output error and can't create image. Should I choose 'compressed' rather than DVD/CD master. I don't understand what compressed means, but it was chosen already when i first click NEW IMAGE.

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Mac Newbie - System restore/Time machine type question

Hi There, Macbook newbie here, got my macbook for xmas and I am totally converted.
I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of how to set up a 'system restore' type of thing similiar to the windows system restore via time machine.
Do I need to connect to an external hard drive for this?
External hard drive question, are there special 'mac' external hard drives or could I just pick anyone up eg seagate/freecom etc?
Anti virus question: which software would you recommend for Anti virus?
Appreciate any help and looking forward to making them most of my new mac!

kal137 wrote:
Hi There, Macbook newbie here, got my macbook for xmas and I am totally converted.
I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of how to set up a 'system restore' type of thing similiar to the windows system restore via time machine.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
In addition to the info offered by Jolly Giant, Time Machine is rather different from the system restore feature of Windoze.
First, a bit of terminology: +Time Machine+ is the software built-in to recent Macs that does backups and restores. It can back up to an internal HD, an external HD, or a +Time Capsule,+ which is a piece of Apple hardware that combines a wireless router and hard drive.
Technically, this forum is for +Time Capsules;+ there are separate forums in the Leopard and Snow Leopard sections for +Time Machine.+
Time Machine backs-up +*your entire system+* -- OSX, apps, configuration, users, settings, preferences, data, etc. It also keeps previous versions of things you've changed or deleted (so it needs more space than what's used on your system).
You can then easily browse the backups and restore selected items, if you've deleted or changed them in error, or they somehow got corrupted.
Or, if something goes terribly wrong, you can also restore your entire system to the exact state it was in at the time of any backup, even if that's a previous version of OSX. That's the procedure Jolly Giant referred you to in the FAQ Tip.
You might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
Apple - Support - Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard Time Machine
and perhaps browse the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.
See especially #1 and #5 there before getting started.

Newbie has RMAN restore questions

I am new to Oracle and RMAN. We had a failure on a Windows Server running Oracle 9.2. I copied the backed up datafiles from RMAN to a recovery system. The production system is running again. I need to restore the old data on the recovery system, which is a clean installation of Windows Server and Oracle 9.2.
How do I get RMAN to see the backup set files that I copied over from our production system?
I tried this using the name of one of the backed up files:
CATALOG DATFILECOPY 'C:\BACKUP\ZEUS\DF0_ZEUS-2965_715266526';This returned "ORA-19563: datafile copy header validation failed for file C:\BACKUP\ZEUS\DF0_ZEUS-2965_715266526."
I think the problem is the one described at http://youngcow.net/doc/oracle10g/backup.102/b14192/maint007.htm:
If you try to catalog a datafile copy from a database other than the connected target database,
then RMAN issues an error such as the following:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of catalog command on default channel at 08/29/2001 14:44:34
ORA-19563: datafile copy header validation failed for file /tmp/tools01.dbfI tried SET DBID so that the DBID is the same as the production database, but my results are unchanged.
Edited by: user12961563 on Apr 15, 2010 10:27 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have tried "RESTORE CONTROLFILE FROM AUTOBACKUP;" and the procedure "Performing Disaster Recovery" documented here: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b10734/rcmrecov.htm. I run into these problems:
Not mounted: The RESTORE command fails with ORA-01507: Database not mounted.
Mounted: RMAN-06189: Current DBID does not match target mounted database.
So I run "SET DBID" to make the DBID the same as the source database, just like it says in step 3 of "Performing Disaster Recovery". The RESTORE command then searches some files and gives RMAN-06172: No autobackup found or specified handle is not a valide copy or piece.
The backed up files are in F:\Backup, and I have these settings:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 'F:\BACKUP\cf_%F';
The only thing I can think of is that RMAN is not looking in F:\BACKUP. Is there something else going on? I've read through scores of pages of docs, but can't find and leads.

Time Machine Restore Question

Hi,
I need to restore my Macbook Pro from my Time Machine backup as I cannot boot (gets stuck on the Apple screen with the wheel spinning and Disk Verify and Repair both fail). My questions is......if I do that will my bootcamp partition, which works perfectly, remain in place or will it be deleted / removed.
Thanks

your bootcamp partition will not be affected in any way.

ISE 1.2 backup restore questions

Hi all,
I have been looking at the backup and restore procedure for ISE deployments and have to say I have found the documentation to be somewhat confusing in general. Whilst I get the gist of it I have found numerous areas that are grey. This question is the first of many but here we go.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-2/user_guide/ise_user_guide/ise_backup.html#pgfId-1073378
Based on that link to restore a failed primary admin node I am left wondering about the state of the licensing. In a deployment that has the licensing configured to utilise the UDIs of the primary and secondary node what happens after you have rebuilt the primary from the ground up?
As far as I am aware when you run up a new node the UDI changes meaning that the license detail is no longer correct - how does this affect the rebuilt node becoming primary again and do you have to rehost the license to reflect the new UDI?

Another question I have is about the restoration of monitoring data to a primary monitoring node that has temporarily failed. As per documentation it states that a manual backup should be taken from the secondary node and restored to the primary to essentially provide the missing events during the outage. I have a couple of questions about this process:
1. What happens when the primary monitoring comes back online - does it sync up with the secondary monitoring node effectively overwriting the events the secondary has or does it just continue on its merry way?
2. To restore data to the primary monitoring node do you need to de-register the primary before restoring the backup taken from the secondary and re-join it to the deployment or do you just restore from the primary admin GUI? As far as I can see this still means that there will be a hole in the data for the period of time it takes to restore from backup.

Exchange Server 2013 backup and restoration question

Good afternoon
I am wondering if I can pick people's brains here if that's not too much trouble.
I have recently implemented an Exchange 2013 environment with 3 servers (two multi-role CAS & MBX physical machines, and one further virtual CAS server). Everything is working correctly and mail-flow is fine. My question relates to backup and restoration
procedures. I am running a single Database Availability group with the two multi-role servers members of the this group and I have one Mailbox Database on the DAG, passive on one member and active on the other. Failover has been tested and this is functioning
as expected.
The backup environment I have implemented is as follows. I have utilized a separate Microsoft DPM 2012 server that runs a nightly Bare Metal backup on both multi-role servers with a retention range of 14 days and I have protected the DAG using DPM with a
nightly full-express backup and 4 hourly syncs on one of the multi-role servers. Furthermore the Mailbox Database is protected, again nightly with a copy-backup.
I am confident I know what to do should the mailbox database become corrupted or lost or need to be restored for one reason or another (it would just be a case of restoring the backed up mailbox database using DPM to a pre-created recovery database), what
I am not quite so sure on is what I would do should I lose one or both of the multi-role CAS and MBX servers (the third CAS I am not so worried about as it is not used for incoming mail flow from the internet and we really only use it for ECP as we did not
want to expose this to the internet). I wonder what process should follow to restore my Exchange servers (I know how to perform the Bare Metal recoveries using WSB) and what configuration would be required after restoring the Bare Metal backups.
I know this is a reasonably long question but if anyone has any advice for me I would appreciate it greatly in the unlikely event something goes horribly wrong with my Exchange environment.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Yes, Most of the configuration settings are stored in AD. Mail data and personal related data are store in Mailbox DB. We just need to take consideration of these two points.
Thanks,
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DB2 restore question

Hi!
Due to a unwanted batch input job we need to restore a R/3 system from prod to a sandbox system to have a reference system.
I have created a restore script with the brdb6brt tool to do a redirected restore, and it is currently creating table spaces in the database.
We are running on AIX v5.2 and DB2 v8 FP 11.
We have a full DB backup on disk and incremental backups on a networker managed tape library.
My question is:
If you restore with the parameter "incremental", is it possible to mark the DB as restored and start the rollforward process without applying the incremental backups on tape?
The documentation for DB2 leaves some space for interpretation, and I don't have the time to do wrong for this 1.4 TB DB.
Here are the examples from the documentation:
"Notes:
After successful completion of step 1, and before completing step 3, the restore operation can be aborted by issuing:
db2 restore db mydb abort
After successful completion of step 3, and before issuing all the required commands in step 4, the restore operation can be aborted by issuing:
db2 restore db mydb incremental abort "
Will any of these commands abort the restore so I need to restart the restore, or just exit the restore procedure so I can continue with rollforward.
BR Morten

Hi!
I will answer this post myself.
First read contetn in link: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/admin/t0006070.htm
In addition:
Here the description of the command parameters for the restore:
CONTINUE
Specifies that the containers have been redefined, and that the
final step in a redirected restore operation should be performed.
ABORT
This parameter:
Stops a redirected restore operation. This is useful when an
error has occurred that requires one or more steps to be
repeated. After RESTORE DATABASE with the ABORT option has
been issued, each step of a redirected restore operation must
be repeated, including RESTORE DATABASE with the REDIRECT
option.
Terminates an incremental restore operation before completion.
Therefore if you allready have issued the "RETSTORE DATABASE NBP
CONTINUE" without any error, then the restore is finished.
You cannot do a continue manually because you are in another session
then the script (Therefore you get the SQL2008N).
Best regards,
Steffen Stolz
SAP Global Support, DB2 UDB for UNIX and Windows

Newbie Automatic restore issues

Hi:
I have two issues with a program I am working on to do an automated restore, The restore takes a backup from production, and replaces the database entirely every day so we have offloaded current information: I avoid logical names because we don't want a
database named production:
FIRST ISSUE:
I would like to be able to drop the database. When I drop it interactively, I always click the box close existing connections: The problem is what to do with an interactive connection: Is there any way with an automated restore replace to intrinsically drop
the database? Although it's not something you normally want to do, it is something in this case that I HAVE to do to ensure the restore works and the with moves move the correctly named files.
SECOND ISSUE
When I run the following statement:
USE [coll18_FinAidNoHR]
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'coll18_production_log' , 0, TRUNCATEONLY)
GO
I get the following error:
Cannot shrink log file 2 (coll18_production_log) because the logical log file located at the end of the file is in use.
(1 row(s) affected)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
Is there any way to work around this without programming?

As for question 2-thanks for all the info on DBCC SHRINKFILE I think the best decision is to do it as needed.The
Restore is a knottier problem. I can't to a restore replace because I want to change the file names. I can't have the logical names.
I run a prestep before my restore that does this common stuff:
if exists (select * from sys.sysdatabases where name = 'FinAidNoHR')
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_database_backuphistory @database_name = N'FinAidNoHR'
if exists (select * from sys.sysdatabases where name = 'FinAidNoHR')
ALTER DATABASE [FinAidNoHR] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
if exists (select * from sys.sysdatabases where name = 'FinAidNoHR')
drop DATABASE [FinAidNoHR];
The restore step fails with this error:
Executed as user: CAMPUS\UCCTD10_SQL. Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3101)
When I run an SP_WHO it DOES show the database open in a sleeping state on a remote machine that did not shut down the instance, but this DROP should have had the effect of an interactive drop with close existing connections checked.
When I did other tests like selecting top 1000 rows from another test database,SP_WHO shows it open in the same way but the DROP works fine.
Before I tear out what little hair I have left, can anybody tell me why it would not drop the connection?
(It was my boss's PC)

Using Lenovo's Enhanced Backup & Restore Questions

Hi all,
I am wondering if anyone has any experience in using Lenovo's Enhanced Backup & Restore.
My situation is that I am thinking of updating the firmware on my MyDigitalSSD 128GB mSATA SSD to the latest version. However, from what I read, the update will wipe the mSATA SSD. Also, at the moment, I have been backing up my C:\ to an external HDD weekly using Lenovo's Enhanced Backup & Restore software.
My question is if my steps below are workable and if the Enhanced Backup & Restore program will restore my system back to the latest backup?
1. Use Enhanced Backup & Restore program to backup the latest image of my system.
2. Update firmware on my mSATA SSD. All data will be wiped.
3. Use my Recovery Discs to restore the mSATA SSD to Lenovo's factory image.
4. Use Enhanced Backup & Restore program to restore the latest image.
Any comments, anyone? Thanks in advance!

You can only restore to the same hub, as the serial numbers have to match.
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Backup/restore questions LMS 4.2

Hello,
I have several questions regarding data migration from LMS 3.2.1 to LMS 4.2.We will perform backup and restore procedure on new LMS4.2 server machine .
1. I am wondering what will happen with admin password aftrer restore, and all the other passwords in LMS. What will be effective? What will happen with database passwords?
2. Other thing is : LMS 3.2.1 is installed on D:\ProgramFiles\CSCOpx and the new LMS 4.2.1 is installed in D:\CSCOpx
Will there be problems during restore, because the paths on old and new LMS server are not the same?
3. When to perform the licensing? Should I apply license before restore? I think I would have to apply it before beacause customer has 300 devices and eval license iz for 100 only.
4. Does PI_CM license - Compliance Management License comes with the product? How do we get this license? I am aware that this CAAM is new feature in 4.2 version so I am not sure does the customer have rights on it. They have bought upgrade from 3.2 to 4.1 and they have valid support contract so we will go to 4.2 version.
Thanks!
Marija

Following are the answers :
1. LMS's user info and passwords are stored in cwpass file under NMSROOT\lib\classpath\com\cisco\nm\cmf\servlet, which is also
backed up with DB backup. Hence restore would bring all previous user names and passwords.
2. Ciscoworks has a mechanism which doesn't bothers the install directory. It sets environment variable as NMSROOT which is replaced by
the install directory and hence there should not be any issue. Please note that Inter-OS resotre are not supported.
3. You can apply the license anytime, but it is good to install it before backup restore, else the excess of devices, more than 100
will go to unmanaged state and will have to be brought back to managed state once lic is applied.
4. CAAM lic has to be purchased separately. You can contact lic. team or your accounts team for this.Till that time you can use it with its 60 days eval lic.
-Thanks
Vinod

System restore questions

I'm with a HP Pavilion dv3-2150us
Originally shipped with Vista, and I got a free upgrade to windows 7 when it came out.
Now the computer is some years old, slowed down and a little crabby. I thought about restoring it,
starting with a fresh OS, surely it will make things work more smoothly. My questions are these:
1) If I run a factory restore - will I still have the recovery partition available? As I understand it format the hard drives - but does it keep the recovery files for a future recovery?
2)I guess it will recover the computer back to Vista. Is there a smart way to recover it straight back to WIN7? I Think I can find the upgrade disk got in the mail. Or am I forces to restore to vista and then upgrade again?
3)Will I need any Vista/Win7 activation keys to do this whole thing? Any other programs will need to be re-installed, but I am not sure I ever had an activation key for windows as it came with the computer.
Thanks a lot
Dvir

Hi,
Your Recovery Discs will return the notebook to it's factory condition ( ie with the Four Primary Partitions you have now ), no matter how you have partitioned the HDD in the meantime - in fact, when using the discs, there is no way to avoid this which is why it's important to back-up the content of any custom partitions as they will be erased by the recovery process.
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IPad Restore Question

Hi Guys and Galls,
I'm just after a little bit of advice, I had an iPad for a few days and bought quite a few apps for it and had it backed up on my PC. I had to return the iPad for unforeseeable financial circumstances. So my question is when I get a new iPad in a few weeks how do I get the apps I bought for the old iPad onto the new iPad?
Second question, I’ll be changing my PC in a couple of months will iTunes just backup the iPad on my new PC or will I need to copy over the apps to my new PC from my old PC?
Many thanks

When getting your new iPad just connect it to your computer and restore it from your previous backup.

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First, I would like to say Hello to all of the other forummers, as being a newbe.
And as a newbe, I offcourse have a question....
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Thanks in advance, David.
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I heard somewhere that the chipset will support it but I don't know if MSI will work to get this board to support it.

PSE 4 Restore questions, please.

I have a few questions on how the restore function works in PSE 4 (having never done it before):
1) I have a full backup on an external drive that dates to June '09. Looking in the backup folder, all pictures have Bxxx.jpg names. Plus there are MyCatalog.buc and backup.tly files. When I restore them, will the original folders and filenames be recreated?
2) During the restore process, will I be able to tell the system which drive/folder to restore them to?
3) If I have since created a new mycatalog.psa in PSE and added recent photos, when I restore my backup, will it append the restored photo's to that catalog, or completely overwrite it?
4) It's hard to explain but I have lots of duplicates, unnamed, misfiled, etc. photo's that I would dearly love to properly organize (my catalog has about 11,200 photo's in it). Should I do this outside of PSE4 and then re-import into a clean catalog (yes, and loose all my tags, etc.), or try to manage it all thru PSE? The reason I hesitate about the latter is, I'd need to click on each picture in PSE4 to see if it is not named properly, then dig further into properties to see if it is misfiled....a daunting task with over 11,000 pictures. Would appreciate your advice before I begin this project.
5) Somewhat unrelated question - I started to re-org my pictures earlier (before my crash) and found many w/ wrong date/time (metadata) associated. Up to this point, I did nothing outside the catalog (but have done a lot of moving, re-importing, etc., over the years). So, how is it that the date/time associated to a .jpg can change? Literally by years? Can you advise on what scenarios might make this happen?
Appreciate any advise you might lend. Thanks -
Christie

What a coincidence. I came to these forums because the same thing is happening to me in PSE 7, and I actually was doing a search on the green box around the photo and the flashing date when I click on a file folder and that led me to this thread. I have my Photoshop organizer file structure set up to match my Windows file structure. I use Photoshop to download all of my photos to folders labeled with the date the photo was taken. Then I typically rename the folder using Photoshop, and the matching rename shows up in Windows. If I move any files or folders, I do it through Photoshop Organizer. I have read the online manual and I *think* that I'm following the instructions, but I admit that I don't find any of it to be particularly intuitive. Whatever I'm doing wrong must be cumulative.
This has happened gradually, but now when I ask the Organizer to display the photos (I have everything checked to show in the 'View' menu), it displays only a fraction of them, and they are associated with the wrong folders. When I try to rename some of the folders, I get a message that says "The folder that you are trying to rename contains files that are not visible in the Organizer. Are you sure you want to rename this folder?" Yet, when I right click on the file in the Photoshop filetree and display the files in Explorer, then attempt to add them to the Organizer, Photoshop tells me that all of the files have already been imported. The only way I can see some of them in the Organizer is to search for them by filename, and I'm not talking about edited images, I mean the originals in the set. And I, too, have found photos (originals, not edits) that have had the date changed. Fortunately, I have under 1000 photos so I could erase the whole thing and re-import them and re-tag and caption everything, but I've spent hours and hours doing this already and don't want to have the same thing happen to me again.
At this point, I'm ready to just go back to organizing, rating, tagging and captioning my photos in Windows and using PSE to just edit them and create the occasional online album to share with family.

Randomly Pausing Audio Playback/Restoring Question

My iPhone 3G will on it's own, randomly pause audio playback (Pandora, iPod) when a 3.5 mm jack is plugged in, this takes any-wear from 10 secs to 30 mins, and this never happens when I use Apple OEM iPhone headphones. I went to an Apple store and the proposed resolution was to restore my iPhone as new. So my first question is: if I restore my iPhone as new, load music and a few apps on it and this does not fix the problem, can I restore my iPhone to the current state that has all my apps and data? My other question is, does anyone else have this problem?
Thanks!
-Mike

I don't have this problem.
But your question about restoring your phone to it's current state, yes. When you plug your iPhone into iTunes, right click on the phone in the column on the left and select "backup phone". (That is if iTunes doesn't automatically start syncing/backing up.) After that you perform a restore which erases the phones and updates to the current version. At that point, iTunes should prompt you to install the backup.

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