Recover Notes lost in a backup
I had a lot of important information written in my notes and lost it during my last backup. Foolishly I checked the box 'replace information on my iphone' with my gmail notes account. Is there a way to recover the lost information from my notes that was only on my iPhone?
Thank you so much for your help.
If you synced your phone while these notes were still on it and you haven't synced again since they were deleted, you may be able to recover them by restoring your phone to your last backup (the backup includes notes). This will revert your settings and data to those contained in the backup (not just notes) so be sure to save any more recent data prior to restoring). To do this:
Without connecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences, on the Devices tab check "Prevent...from syncing automatically".
Connect your phone to your computer, right-click on the name of your phone when it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar and select Restore from Backup, choose your most recent backup to restore from.
When this finishes you can go back to iTunes>Prerferences>Devices and re-enable automatic syncing.
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RMAN-05556: not all datafiles have backups that can be recovered to SCN
Oracle 11.2.0.2 SE-One
Oracle Linux 5.6 x86-64
Weekly refresh of a test db from prod, using rman DUPLICATE DATABASE, failed with “RMAN-05556: not all datafiles have backups that can be recovered to SCN”
Background Summary:
Weekly inc 0 backup of production starts on Sunday at 0100, normally completes around 1050. Includes backups of archivelogs
Another backup of just archivelogs runs on Sunday at 1200, normally completes NLT 1201.
On the test server, the refresh job starts on Sunday at 1325. In the past this script used a set until time \"to_date('`date +%Y-%m-%d` 11:55:00','YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi:ss')\"; -- hard-coded for ‘today at 11:55’.
For a variety of reasons I decided to replace this semi-hard coding of the UNTIL with a value determined by querying the rman catalog, getting the completion time of the inc 0 backup. This tested out just fine in my vbox lab, even when I deliberately drove some updates and log switches during the period the backup was running. But the first time to go live I got the above reported error.
Details:
The key part of the inc 0 backup is this (run from a shell script)
export BACKUP_LOC=/u01/backup/dbprod
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target=/ catalog rman/***@rmcat<<EOF
configure backup optimization on;
configure default device type to disk;
configure retention policy to recovery window of 2 days;
crosscheck backup;
crosscheck archivelog all;
delete noprompt force obsolete;
delete noprompt force expired backup;
delete noprompt force expired archivelog all;
configure controlfile autobackup on;
configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to '$BACKUP_LOC/%d_%F_ctl.backup';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '$BACKUP_LOC/%U.rman' MAXPIECESIZE 4096 M;
sql "alter system archive log current";
show all;
backup as compressed backupset archivelog all delete all input format "$BACKUP_LOC/%U.alog";
backup as compressed backupset incremental level 0 database tag tag_dbprod;
sql "alter system archive log current";
backup as compressed backupset archivelog all delete all input format "$BACKUP_LOC/%U.alog";
list recoverable backup;
EOF
The archivelog-only backup (runs at noon) looks like this:
export BACKUP_LOC=/u01/backup/dbprod
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target=/ catalog rman/***@rmcat<<EOF
configure backup optimization on;
configure default device type to disk;
configure retention policy to recovery window of 2 days;
crosscheck backup;
crosscheck archivelog all;
delete noprompt force obsolete;
delete noprompt force expired backup;
delete noprompt force expired archivelog all;
configure controlfile autobackup on;
configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to '$BACKUP_LOC/%d_%F_ctl.backup';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '$BACKUP_LOC/%U.rman' MAXPIECESIZE 4096 M;
sql "alter system archive log current";
show all;
backup as compressed backupset archivelog all delete all input format "$BACKUP_LOC/%U.alog";
list recoverable backup;
EOF
And the original refresh looked like this:
>> a step to ftp the backups from the prod server to the test server, and some other housekeeping <<, then
cd /backup/dbtest
echo "connect catalog rman/***@rmcat" > /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "connect target sys/*******@dbprod" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "connect auxiliary /" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "run {" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "set until time \"to_date('`date +%Y-%m-%d` 11:55:00','YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi:ss')\";" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "duplicate target database to DBTEST;" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "}" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
So, my mod to the refresh was
bkup_point=`sqlplus -s rman/***@rmcat <<EOF1
set echo off verify off feedback off head off pages 0 trimsp on
select to_char(max(completion_time),'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')
from rc_backup_set_details
where db_name='DBPROD'
and backup_type='D'
and incremental_level=0
exit
EOF1`
cd /backup/dbtest
echo "connect catalog rman/***@rmcat" > /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "connect target sys/*******@dbprod" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "connect auxiliary /" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "run {" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "set until time \"to_date('${bkup_point}','YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi:ss')\";" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "duplicate target database to DBTEST;" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
echo "}" >> /backup/dbtest/dbtest_refresh.rman
Now the fun begins.
First, an echo in the refresh script confirmed the ‘bkup_point’:
=======================================================
We will restore to 2013-08-25 10:41:38
=======================================================
Internally, rman reset the ‘until’ as follows:
executing command: SET until clause
Starting Duplicate Db at 25-Aug-2013 15:35:44
allocated channel: ORA_AUX_DISK_1
channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1: SID=162 device type=DISK
contents of Memory Script:
set until scn 45633141350;
Examining the result of LIST BACKUP (the last step of all of my rman scripts) the full backup shows this:
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5506664 Full 61.89M DISK 00:00:03 25-Aug-2013 02:11:32
BP Key: 5506678 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20130825T021129
Piece Name: /u01/backup/dbprod/DBPROD_c-3960114099-20130825-00_ctl.backup
SPFILE Included: Modification time: 24-Aug-2013 22:33:08
SPFILE db_unique_name: DBPROD
Control File Included: Ckp SCN: 45628880455 Ckp time: 25-Aug-2013 02:11:29
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5507388 Incr 0 206.03G DISK 08:30:00 25-Aug-2013 10:41:30
List of Datafiles in backup set 5507388
File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
1 0 Incr 45628880495 25-Aug-2013 02:11:38 +SMALL/dbprod/datafile/system.258.713574775
>>>>>>>>> snip lengthy list <<<<<<<<<
74 0 Incr 45628880495 25-Aug-2013 02:11:38 +SMALL/dbprod/event_i2.dbf
Backup Set Copy #1 of backup set 5507388
Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time Compressed Tag
DISK 08:30:00 25-Aug-2013 10:41:36 YES TAG_DBPROD
List of Backup Pieces for backup set 5507388 Copy #1
BP Key Pc# Status Piece Name
5507391 1 AVAILABLE /u01/backup/dbprod/eeoi55iq_1_1.rman
>>>>>>>>>>>>> snip lengthy list <<<<<<<<<<<
5507442 52 AVAILABLE /u01/backup/dbprod/eeoi55iq_52_1.rman
Notice the slight difference in time between what is reported in the LIST BACKUP and what was reported by my query to the catalog.
Continuing with the backup list, the second archivelog backup in the script generated six backupsets. The fifth set showed:
BS Key Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5507687 650.19M DISK 00:02:18 25-Aug-2013 10:54:53
BP Key: 5507694 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20130825T104156
Piece Name: /u01/backup/dbprod/ekoi643j_1_1.alog
List of Archived Logs in backup set 5507687
Thrd Seq Low SCN Low Time Next SCN Next Time
1 1338518 45632944587 25-Aug-2013 05:58:18 45632947563 25-Aug-2013 05:58:20
>>>>>>>>>>>>> snip lengthy list <<<<<<<<<<<
1 1338572 45633135750 25-Aug-2013 10:08:21 45633140240 25-Aug-2013 10:08:24
1 1338573 45633140240 25-Aug-2013 10:08:24 45633141350 25-Aug-2013 10:30:06
1 1338574 45633141350 25-Aug-2013 10:30:06 45633141705 25-Aug-2013 10:41:51
1 1338575 45633141705 25-Aug-2013 10:41:51 45633141725 25-Aug-2013 10:41:55
Notice the availability of the archivelogs including the referenced scn.
Investigation of the ftp portion of the refresh script confirmed that all backup pieces were copied from the prod server.
So what am I overlooking? Having reverted back to the original script to get the refresh completed,HemantKChitale wrote:
So, technically, you only need the database and archivelogs backed up by the database script and not the noon run of the archivelog backup.
backup as compressed backupset archivelog all delete all input format "$BACKUP_LOC/%U.alog";
backup as compressed backupset incremental level 0 database tag tag_dbprod;
sql "alter system archive log current";
backup as compressed backupset archivelog all delete all input format "$BACKUP_LOC/%U.alog";
Yet, why does backupset 5 of the noon archivelog backup show archivelogs from 10:30 to 10:40 if they had been deleted by the database backup script which has a delete input ? It is as if the database backup script did NOT delete the archivelogs and the noon run was the one to backup the archivelogs (again ?)
No, that is from the morning full backup. Note the 'Completion Time" of 25-Aug-2013 10:54:53
However, the error message seems to point to a datafile. Why would reverting the recovery point to 11:55 make a difference, I wonder.
As do I.
Also puzzling to me are the times associated with the completion of the backups. I don't recall ever having to scrutinize a backup listing this closely so I'm sure it's just a matter of filling in some gaps in my understanding, but I noticed this. The backup report (list backup;) shows this for the inc 0 backup:
BS Key Type LV Size
Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5507388 Incr 0 206.03G
DISK
08:30:00
25-Aug-2013 10:41:30 ------- NOTE THE COMPLETION TIME ----
List of Datafiles in backup set 5507388
File LV Type Ckp SCN
Ckp Time
Name
1
0 Incr 45628880495 25-Aug-2013 02:11:38 +SMALL/dbprod/datafile/system.258.713574775
------ SNIP ------
74 0 Incr 45628880495 25-Aug-2013 02:11:38 +SMALL/dbprod/event_i2.dbf
Backup Set Copy #1 of backup set 5507388
Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
Compressed Tag
DISK
08:30:00
25-Aug-2013 10:41:36 YES
TAG_DBPROD ------- NOTE THE COMPLETION TIME ----
List of Backup Pieces for backup set 5507388 Copy #1
BP Key Pc# Status
Piece Name
5507391 1 AVAILABLE /u01/backup/dbprod/eeoi55iq_1_1.rman
------ SNIP ------
5507442 52 AVAILABLE /u01/backup/dbprod/eeoi55iq_52_1.rman
Then the autobackup of the control file immediatly following:
BS Key Type LV Size
Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5507523 Full
61.89M
DISK
00:00:03
25-Aug-2013 10:41:47 ------- NOTE THE COMPLETION TIME ----
BP Key: 5507587 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20130825T104144
Piece Name: /u01/backup/dbprod/DBPROD_c-3960114099-20130825-01_ctl.backup
SPFILE Included: Modification time: 25-Aug-2013 05:57:15
SPFILE db_unique_name: DBPROD
Control File Included: Ckp SCN: 45633141671 Ckp time: 25-Aug-2013 10:41:44
Then the archivelog backup immediately following (remember, this created a total of 5 backupset, I'm showing number 4)
BS Key Size
Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5507687 650.19M
DISK
00:02:18
25-Aug-2013 10:54:53 ------- NOTE THE COMPLETION TIME ----
BP Key: 5507694 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20130825T104156
Piece Name: /u01/backup/dbprod/ekoi643j_1_1.alog
List of Archived Logs in backup set 5507687
Thrd Seq
Low SCN
Low Time
Next SCN Next Time
1
1338518 45632944587 25-Aug-2013 05:58:18 45632947563 25-Aug-2013 05:58:20
------ SNIP ------
1
1338572 45633135750 25-Aug-2013 10:08:21 45633140240 25-Aug-2013 10:08:24
1
1338573 45633140240 25-Aug-2013 10:08:24 45633141350 25-Aug-2013 10:30:06
1
1338574 45633141350 25-Aug-2013 10:30:06 45633141705 25-Aug-2013 10:41:51
1
1338575 45633141705 25-Aug-2013 10:41:51 45633141725 25-Aug-2013 10:41:55
and the controlfile autobackup immediately following:
BS Key Type LV Size
Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
5507984 Full
61.89M
DISK
00:00:03
25-Aug-2013 10:55:07 ------- NOTE THE COMPLETION TIME ----
BP Key: 5508043 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20130825T105504
Piece Name: /u01/backup/dbprod/DBPROD_c-3960114099-20130825-02_ctl.backup
SPFILE Included: Modification time: 25-Aug-2013 05:57:15
SPFILE db_unique_name: DBPROD
Control File Included: Ckp SCN: 45633142131 Ckp time: 25-Aug-2013 10:55:04
and yet, querying the rman catalog
SQL> select to_char(max(completion_time),'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')
2 from rc_backup_set_details
3 where db_name='DBPROD'
4 and backup_type='D'
5 and incremental_level=0
6 ;
TO_CHAR(MAX(COMPLET
2013-08-25 10:41:38
SQL>
which doesn't match (to the second) the completion time of either the full backup or the associated controlfile autobackp.
Hemant K Chitale
I hope this posts in a readable, understandable manner. I really struggeled with the 'enhanced editor', which I normally use. When I pasted in blocks from the rman report, it kept trying to make some sort of table structure out of it .... guess I'll have to follow that up with a question in the Community forum .... -
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I think all the info is still on the hard drive, I just don't know how to recover it. -
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Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-17-003743: 65.81 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-18-005504: 65.86 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-19-005508: 66.45 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-20-005628: 69.19 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-21-005514: 69.43 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-22-002552: 69.46 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-23-002555: 71.08 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-24-001415: 71.61 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-25-001418: 74.50 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-26-002111: 88.49 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-27-000651: 89.29 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Mach
I tried "Backup Now" and it failed. TM widget said this.........
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Starting pre-backup thinning: 197.53 GB requested (including padding), 59.88 GB available
No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Backup Failed: unable to free 197.53 GB needed space
Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Now I only have the current backup and 1 earlier. I deleted from iMovie the offending movies and moved them to another unbacked up disc. I also removed all backups relating to the movies in TM.
TM now says I only have 76GB available and will not backup.
Get info on the TM disc says 76GB available. Get info on the Backups.backupdb folder says its size is 2.21TB!!!!!
Any suggestions? I guess I've lost all my older backups but is the current backup salvageable (and trustworthy) or should I move the laptop backup to another drive and start the TM disc from scratch for the MacPro? Can I then just move the laptop sparse image back to the TM disc and the laptop will pick up where it left off?
I will wear starting the MacPro backup from scratch if necessary but don't want to screw the laptop backup as it's my wife's and she's overseas.
Sorry for the long post but wanted to try to be clear.
I just tried to repair the disc in disc utility as suggested to someone in another post but it said error - could not unmount disc.
Message was edited by: MagicponyI lost all my backups today.
Doesn't sound like it... sounds like you simply can't back up any further. You can still enter Time Machine to restore files, right?
I have MacPro with data totalling about 900GB plus a laptop with 170GB on it backing up to a 1.5TB drive.
Well, there's your problem. Time Machine needs +at a minimum+ 2-3 times more space than what is being backed up. You say you have 1070 GB (about 1.04 TB) being backed up, but you've only given Time Machine 1.5 TB to work with. You need a backup drive that is at least 2-3 TB in size!
Also, if this is your only backup, you're making a huge mistake. You should always have a minimum of 2 backups. See my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for more information on backing up. You may also want to look at some of the user contributed tips at the top of the [Leopard Time Machine forum|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1227]. Those will all apply to Snow Leopard as well.
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There is no way to track it without find my iphone. -
How do I recover notes after a "Restore iPhone" without using a backup?
I have a bunch of notes on my iPhone in the "on My iPhone" account. To fix the vanishing music problem on my iPhone, the Apple store had me hard restore my iPhone and told me not to restore from backup. I can find how to replace my music, calendars, etc from iTunes, but I can't figure out how to restore my "notes". Since I've been storing a lot of stuff in notes, I need to get the notes back. There is no obvious place in iTunes. There are no notes in my my "notes" app in OS 10.9.
If they were in the "On my iPhone" account, they are gone now. You would have had to sync them to the Notes app on your Mac.
Did you ever do a backup? If so, there are some programs that claim they can extract data from backups, so trying one of those may be worth doing.
~Lyssa -
How to recover the lost contact list if I had not done the back up yet
Anyone knows how to recover the lost contact from iPad which is over write by using iCloud without back up yet ?
Oh , it's terrible !
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Can I recover notes that were deleted upon the removal of an email account?
I recently deleted the e-mail account of a prior employer to which was associated most of my notes in the Note app. I had no idea that notes were even associated with each email account, but now about 50% of what I was using is simply gone. Ironically, that email account was no longer connected to the company server as I am working elsewhere, so no backup will exist there. I do not have an itune backup recent enough to be of any value. The icloud and gmail accounts each have some of their own notes, but none of them have the missing notes.
So, is there any signature left of the files in the physical memeory of my ipad? If so, is there an app which will let me look for them. To be honest, this is kind of disappointing for apple in that quite a few folks have no idea of the association, though I should have had some more recent itune backups. Particularly since an inactive connection to the email server automatically implies there is no backup anywhere. I wish I would have known that tidbit.
Help!Might be some help on these links.
iPad Photo Recovery: How to Recover Deleted Photos
http://www.iskysoft.com/iphone-data-recovery-mac/ipad-photo-recovery.html
How to Restore Lost or Deleted Files from iPad
http://www.iphone-ipad-recovery.com/recover-ipad-mini-files.html
How to Recover Deleted Files from iPad
http://www.kvisoft.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-files-from-ipad.html
iSkysoft Free iPhone Data Recovery
http://www.iskysoft.com/iphone-data-recovery/
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Recover contacts, messages, photos, videos, notes, call history, calendars, voicemail, voice memos, reminders, bookmarks and other documents.
Cheers, Tom -
How do I recover data lost from restoring
I restored my ipod touch to the settings of a former ipod touch without realizing it would delete all my data. It erased some pictures and video, so I am wondering if there is any way to recover that lost data. Help!
Not unless you can restore from a backup that was made from the ipod when it was the way you wanted it.
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HT4236 Is there a way to recover photos lost when phone is accidently restored?
I recently restored my Iphone by mistake. Is there a way to recover my lost photos?
If the photos were not imported by your computer and your iPhone's backup was not updated to include the photos prior to restoring the iPhone, the photos are gone unless you had Photo Stream enabled with your iCloud account settings on the iPhone and all photos in the Camera Roll were copied to your Photo Stream prior to the restore.
iTunes does not handle the import of photos/videos on the Camera Roll.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4083
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