Recover a single datafile

Hi,
i am new into this..so please help
here is the situation:
we have a 9i RAC env (production we dont have a dev env.). that holds alot of applications...today morning, one of the application with in 15 min lost a portion of the data (i dont really know how)...the database was running fine and no errors where generated....all other applications are running fine with no problem and nothing was lost(except for that one)...
i need to know how i can restore that portion...please note that i tried to use logmnr but i couldnt as to set the UTL_FILE_DIR parameter i need to bounce the database which is not acceptable(as it will affect the other application)...
so is there any other way???
i have a backup which i am tried to validate....if i need to use the recovery is there any suggested strategies...
please help
thanks in advance

What's your database version? 9i is only marketing tag.
Is it 9iR1 or 9iR2.
What's backup you have?
From what you described, it looks like an user error or logic error (someone or something accidently deleted data) . If you are on 9iR2 first try flashback query on damaged tables, otherwise look into Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery
Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96566/rcmconc2.htm#459444

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