Recovery from hot backup

I have a problem with recovery hot backup from production database to test database and open it to use.
I have 'hot backup' without temporary tablespace and roll tablespace, I cant shut down production database (24x7), please give me a regulations how to recover database from hot backup, without online redo logs, temp tablespace, roll tablespace only with archive logs, and.....after this ..rename database sid.
Every time when I recovered database, it's still want to recover...and recover from archive logs and I cant open it, it's still inconsistent.Please send me an answer for [email protected]
thanks!

Hi,
What is the OS and version of Oracle?
Do you have all the archivelogs after the hot backup? Is the backup a valid backup? Is it a RMAN backup or normal file system backup of the datafiles?
Regards,
Badri.

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Question on recovery from Hot backup

Whenever I tried to recover from my hot backup using recover database untill cancel (or any other until option)..
I get messages similar to the following :
SQL> recover database using backup controlfile until cancel ;
ORA-00279: change 212733060 generated at 11/18/2008 23:50:58 needed for thread
1
ORA-00289: suggestion : /d01/oradata/devl/arc/1_282_667362770.dbf
ORA-00280: change 212733060 for thread 1 is in sequence #282
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
/d01/oradata/devl/arc/1_282_667362770.dbf
ORA-00279: change 212733060 generated at needed for thread 2
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
/d01/oradata/devl/arc/2_257_667362770.dbf
ORA-00279: change 212733060 generated at needed for thread 3
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
/d01/oradata/devl/arc/3_258_667362770.dbf
ORA-00279: change 212733060 generated at needed for thread 4
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
I have all my archive files in the archive dest location.
Is there any way to prevent this warning messages and let oracle find all the archive files?
As you can see from the messages, Oracle is finding the correct file, then why there is an error message and why we have to provide the file names one-by one.
Please help !!!

Oracle will look for needed archive logfile from your log archive destination.
If you are sure all these files are under /d01/oradata/devl/arc/, you can input AUTO, Oracle will work down the list until done.

Complete Recovery from HOT BACKUP

One of our server had media failuer. We are rebuilding new server and reinstalling oracle on it. I have hot backup of instance which I would like to recover.
Can I have steps please. I will appreciate your help...!

Hi,
What is the OS and version of Oracle?
Do you have all the archivelogs after the hot backup? Is the backup a valid backup? Is it a RMAN backup or normal file system backup of the datafiles?
Regards,
Badri.

Windows Server 2012 - Backup failing with Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed

Hi
We have a Windows 2012 server with Exchange 2013, all is working fine except now i am getting issues with the backup.
'Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed for the component Microsoft Exchange Server'
I have checked the database all is fine, i have created a new db and move all mailbox;s over and then removed the old db, i have enabled circular logging and then disabled it, it seems no matter what i do i cannot get a full backup!
i did have to restore the server once and the backups still worked for about 4 days after that and then stopped, i have also tried to remove and re add the backup role!
i am stumped, any advice would be great!

Hi
Ok, i created a test db and tried to back it up right away, it failed, i did not add any mailbox's to it either. i got quite a few events in the windows logs, as well as the same event above i got the following:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database 4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261645</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261646</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2034
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Replication service VSS Writer (Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9) failed with error FFFFFFFC when processing the backup completion event.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">2034</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261649</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>FFFFFFFC</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: SPP
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 16389
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Writer Microsoft Exchange Writer experienced retryable error during shadow copy creation. Retrying... More info: .
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="SPP" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">16389</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261650</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Microsoft Exchange Writer</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error may not reoccur. (0x800423F3)</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>00000000A5120000981200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Recovery from Online backup

Hai All,
I regularly take hot backup via a script. In script copy all datafiles and archivelogs to the backup destination. One conrolfile is created using 'alter database backup control file to c:/backup.ctl' . Thus controlfile is also generated.
I copy the backup files (includes datafiles and controlfiles) to a test machine . In test machine I created a database with the same name of production database. I replace the present files with the hot backup files (keep existing redo log files). When I open the database, recovery asked... I apply the backup archive log files. Even when reach the maximum archive files in my hand. recvery not stop... . This is the problem .. How It happened ? How to open the database with the backup files in my hand only.
I copy the remaining archive log files and redo log files from production database and apply. then I open the database with resetlogs . It works fine......
How to resolve the mentioning problem in second paragraph?
Please help?
Shiju

How do you backup your database? Do you using RMAN to backup your database? or you use ALTER TABLESPACE BEGING BCKUP method to backup your database?
Which version of Oracle are you using? Is there anything wrong configure autobackup of controlfile to avoid explicitly taking controlefile bakup?
If you want to test your bakcup or wanted to create another copy (clone) of the database using your valid backup, why did you create the second database and did the other fuss?
You can simply, bring up the instance, restore and recovery using your backups.
I guess, the problem was with redo log files. You have overwritten all the datafiles, controlfile, but not redo log files, may be the redo log sequence mismatch cuased this behaviour.
Jaffar

Recovery using Hot Backup

We have to create a new enviornment(pre-prod) using Hot backup (restore from tape of last week) of the current prod DB, we have installed the same version of software as in prod and prepared init file but i am not sure about how we are going to do the recovery from last week backup,it would be a incomplete recovery as they want data till last week only,to my knowledge..we will create a new control file and open the DB using resetlogs...please can somebody help/guide me more on this...please share the steps required.
Thank You

We have to create a new enviornment(pre-prod) using Hot backup (restore from tape of last week) of the current prod DB, we have installed the same version of software as in prod and prepared init file but i am not sure about how we are going to do the recovery from last week backup,it would be a incomplete recovery as they want data till last week only,to my knowledge..we will create a new control file and open the DB using resetlogs...please can somebody help/guide me more on this...please share the steps required.If you have backup of one week older, then
1)startup instance in nomount status
2) check the logfile of RMAN for controlfile backup piece
or from Production give below command and check for the backup of the last week controlfile.
RMAN> list backup of controlfile;
note the backup piece
3) again back to pre-prod
RMAN> restore controlfile from 'backup piece';
5) SQL> alter database mount;
6) RMAN> Restore database;
after restore database open database with resetlogs, If you see any inconsistency apply archives 1/2 or as needed for consistency. and open database with resetlogs.
Here duplicate from active database wont work as you want 1 week older data.

How to do media recovery from cold backup?????????/

Hi
i take cold backup of my 9i database ....
in case my database is up .....
how will i recover my database if i lose a single database file and i want to recover it from cold backup......
Thanks in advance
Gagan

Here you go
These are the steps:
1. Restore the lost file from a backup.
2. If the database is down, mount it.
SVRMGR> STARTUP MOUNT PFILE=<location_of_pfile>;
3. Issue the following query:
SVRMGR> SELECT V1.GROUP#, MEMBER, SEQUENCE#,
FIRST_CHANGE#
FROM V$LOG V1, V$LOGFILE V2
WHERE V1.GROUP# = V2.GROUP# ;
This will list all your online redolog files and their respective
sequence and first change numbers.
4. If the database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode, issue the query:
SVRMGR> SELECT FILE#, CHANGE# FROM V$RECOVER_FILE;
If the CHANGE# is GREATER than the minimum FIRST_CHANGE# of your logs,
the datafile can be recovered. Just keep in mind that all the logs to
applied will be online logs, and move on to step 5.
If the CHANGE# is LESS than the minimum FIRST_CHANGE# of your logs, the
file cannot be recovered. Your options at this point would be to restore
the most recent full backup (and thus lose all changes to the database
since) or recreate the tablespace as explained in scenario a.
5. Recover the datafile:
SVRMGR> RECOVER DATAFILE '<full_path_file_name>'
6. Confirm each of the logs that you are prompted for until you receive the
message "Media recovery complete". If you are prompted for a non-existing
archived log, Oracle probably needs one or more of the online logs to
proceed with the recovery. Compare the sequence number referenced in the
ORA-280 message with the sequence numbers of your online logs. Then enter
the full path name of one of the members of the redo group whose sequence
number matches the one you are being asked for. Keep entering online logs
as requested until you receive the message "Media recovery complete"
7. If the database is at mount point, open it.

Time Machine Full Recovery From Wireless Backup

I am reporting this as a learning experience for all.
I just had a hard drive fail on my MacBook. Apple Care was golden and now I have a clean install with Leopard.
Here is my situation. MacBook backed up via time machine on a wireless network. Windows on boot camp partition. Dedicated disk (1TB Buffalo) connected to wife's iMac via firewire.
I want to do a full recovery. I start up leopard and it gives me the option to do a full recovery during setup. I have no time machine backup list provided. I continue with setup. When I go to the recover option of time machine I am asked to select a file. This is when I call tech support.
Tech Support says I should have had the backup disk connected directly via firewire for setup to see it. Time machine stores the backup under these conditions as a Sparse bundle. Now that I am past setup I have to do a migration rather than a recovery. I start up the migration assistant and I still cannot access the sparse bundle as it is grayed out. The leap here is you have to mount the sparse bundle, double click, then it shows up as a disk you can migrate from.
Windows Partition, as TS puts it is "on its own".
The confusion for me was that I could not recover exactly as I had backed up.
I hope this helps someone. Cheers!

coma53 wrote:
It seems to be. All music, photos, applications, etc. are present. I have not had time to do a complete review of my migration, I will track this post for a while and report any problems. There were significant OS updates which were required. I thought that they would be included as part of the migrate, not so. Perhaps they are on a true "full recovery" from setup, any one know?
Migration has no option for any part of the OS. It assumes you already have it.
If you recover your entire system from a TM backup (assuming nothing significant was excluded), you get your entire system back exactly the way it was: the OS, Apps, settings, preferences, user data, etc.
You don't load a new OS from the Leopard Install disc -- you only use it for it's copy of Disk Utility and the installer -- everything else comes from your TM backup.

Oracle recovery from tape backup

A plea for help fellows,
Can an a few Oracle tables be recovered using datafile/s that were backed up to conventional tape back up?
The story is that a few days ago I started trying to recover tables for a warehouse (10.2.0.1.0) that appeared as recovered by using EM and rman script embedded in such that gave me a 'confirmation' that the rows were flashed back. It turns out that the rows were not there (unless something else has to be done after the confirmation message in EM), and this was done on three tables.
It has now passed the time (apparently) that I can flash back the tables, as I use the SCN for the relevent time to recover (a flashback query) and I get 'ora-01555: snapshot too old' - the undo won't reach back that far. The database is in archivelog mode. It has now reached a point where the data warehouse owner would like the tables back pronto, but only three of hundreds of tables. What is desired by the data warehouse owner is for the tables to be restored to a location where his team members can pick the 'necessary rows to recover' from a restored copy of the tables.
If I could restore whole tables - to different name, (even unnecessary ones) or even a whole tablespace - different name, the contents could be gotten rid of once it has been scavenged. But the tape restored data file/s would have a different SCN.
Can someone tell me how this can be done please? What is the level of difficulty?
Regards, David

So basically, you want to get 3 tables from an old hot or cold backup taken sometime ago, correct? If so, create another seperate db, restore the old db, recreate the controlfile, recover(if restoring a hot backup), open the db and then export the tables.
Another option is to use RMAN to restore the db, open the db and perform export.
You can then, say create another schema in the target db in another tablespace and then import the tables under the new user's schema.
Hope this helps.

RMAN RECOVERY FROM INCREMENTAL BACKUP

Hi,
hOW TO RECOVER FROM INCREMENTAL BACKUP ?
Any script for recovery from Full+incremental BACKUP?
Many thanks before.

Thank you,
but I can not connect from RMAN when database is shutdowned.
C:\Documents and Settings\Farid>rman catalog rman/****@reprman target sys/***@bd1
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Ven. FÚvr. 16 18:28:19 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: Úchec de l'initialisation du gestionnaire de rÚcupÚration interne
RMAN-04005: erreur de la base de donnÚes cible :
ORA-12514: TNS : le processus d'Úcoute ne conna¯t pas actuellement le service demandÚ dans le descripteur de connexion
tnsping BD1Adaptateur TNSNAMES utilisÚ pour la rÚsolution de l'alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST
E = bd1.virtualparc.com)))
OK (30 msec)

Recovery from corrupted backup

Hi i am new to oracle.
i am working from basics and aspire to learn more.
i have created a new tablespace as follows.
create tablespace college datafile 'f:\oracle\oradata\data1\data1.dbf' size 10m;
made a hot backup of it as
alter tablespace college begin backup;
sql> host
c:\ copy f:\oracle\oradata\data1\data1.dbf h:\hot\data1.dbf
other than one hot backup, i dont have any other backup of it.
but unfortunately, the backup has been also corrupted.
is there any way to restore / recover that tablespace?
pl help me.
Thanks

hi,
sorry mr.nicolas.
instead of archieve log mode, i have described as alm.
i have made the following ones.
i have created a tablespace college and made
hot backup as follows.
Alter tablespace tablespacename begin backup;
Select * from v$backup;
FILE# STATUS CHANGE# TIME
1 NOT ACTIVE 3922996 11-JAN-10
2 NOT ACTIVE 0
3 NOT ACTIVE 0
4 NOT ACTIVE 0
5 NOT ACTIVE 0
6 NOT ACTIVE 0
7 NOT ACTIVE 0
8 NOT ACTIVE 0
9 NOT ACTIVE 0
10 NOT ACTIVE 0
11 ACTIVE 5452047 19-JAN-10
SQL> host
c:\copy f:\oracle\oradata\data1\data1.dbf h:\hotbackup
1 file(s) copied successfully
Alter tablespace college end backup;
Tablespace altered.
i tried to view table from the 'college' tablespace.
but the following error came.
SQL> select * from school;
select * from school
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 11 (block # 18)
ORA-01110: data file 11: 'F:\ORACLE\ORADATA\DATA1\DATA1.DBF'
ORA-27091: skgfqio: unable to queue I/O
ORA-27070: skgfdisp: async read/write failed
OSD-04006: ReadFile() failure, unable to read from file
O/S-Error: (OS 38) Reached the end of the file.
SQL> select * from v$backup;
FILE# STATUS CHANGE# TIME
1 NOT ACTIVE 3922996 11-JAN-10
2 NOT ACTIVE      0
3 NOT ACTIVE      0
4 NOT ACTIVE           0
5 NOT ACTIVE           0
6 NOT ACTIVE      0
7 NOT ACTIVE           0
8 NOT ACTIVE           0
9 NOT ACTIVE           0
10 NOT ACTIVE           0
11 CANNOT READ HEADER 0
this what comes.
sorry to say that i am not clear about version and os.
thx

Recovery from cold backup

Hi,
We take Hot backup everyday, but I took a cold backup using the same catalog. If I want to restore the cold backup I took, what is the proceedure. We are running on 10g in HP Unix.
Thanks.

Hi Rock2,
If you want to restore the cold backup you need to know the tag belonging to this backup.
Using the logfile of the coldbackup or <list backup summary;> in rman you should be able to get this info.
The restore would be similar as:
connect catalog rman/pwd@define_rcv;
# check in catalog database for the dbid.
# If so set the appropriate dbid by unhashing the line directly below using the current dbid
# set dbid = define_dbid
connect target /;
STARTUP NOMOUNT;
run {
allocate channel tc1 type 'SBT_TAPE'; # or 'DISK'
allocate channel tc2 type 'SBT_TAPE'; # or 'DISK'
# adjust the TAG in the following lines
restore controlfile from tag TAG0000001;
sql 'alter database mount';
restore database from tag TAG0000001;
sql 'alter database open resetlogs';
release channel tc1;
release channel tc2;
Regards,
Tycho

Recovery from OKR backup problem

I have NB Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 (from Christmas 2011).
At 2 November 2013 I backed up the system disk using One Key Recovery.
The size of C: partition was approx. 670 gigabytes, approximately halfway filled (photos, videos, etc.).
Backup ran all night, but in the morning the advance was done, no error message or warning was not there. Backup size was approx. 376 gigabytes
A few days before Christmas (at 17/12/2013 ) the hard drive failed. There were a number of bad sectors on it. Until the end of the guarantee remained approx . 2 days. Although I managed to fix hard disk using chkdsk, the number of bad sectors means that HDD is bad. I put it thus in warranty repair shop replaced. Trying to backup using OKR despite Win7 backup system failed this time, I have therefore relied on the November backup.
However, when the NB came out repairs exchanged harddisk, I found that my OKR backup fails - reported something like "The Image file is not valid ... " . After a phone call to the call center I just learned that the original hard drive I cannot get back and that probably my backup is bad. They advised me company that provides after-sales service. But there told me that they are doing just ThinkPads, IdeaPads they only send somewhere to Poland to replace parts.
Further investigation on the Lenovo websites I found that while OKR will make a deposit of any size , but in an earlier version is able to make the recovery only from 100 GB backup and later from 300 GB. For larger backups than 300 (in an earlier version 100) GB writes the message "The Image file is not valid ..." and refuses to continue. However, neither NB nor user manual for OKR mention about it.
Does anyone advise me how to restore data from this backup?
Or at least some address at Lenovo, where they advise me how to solve this problem?

The first step for me was identifying the recovery images. The name and file extension are not as important as the file size. I did finally succeed in downloading win 8.1 core (skipping 8 tottally) AND using the built in key. It was a pain but it can be done. I finally muscled through the "huge pain / learning experience" of installing Windows 8.1, skipping 8 altogether. Below are the steps that I took and the concepts you must understand. # 1 >> First and most importantly, you must understand that you stand no chance of loading Windows 8.1 properly, using your built in license if you do not install it in pure EFI. So then the challendge becomes booting into a medium that is UEFI. A Windows 8.1 PE live image would have been perfect in this situation, but alas I didn't have one. I imagine you may be able to use a Windows7 Live Disc/USb for the following steps, but I just ended up downloading a pirated & precracked version of windows 8.1 so that I could run the software to recover the key from the UEFI firmware. ** IMPORTANT - Once again, please understand that if you do not boot up into pure UEFI (no legacy support enabled in bios), your computer will be running off of an emulated bios running between your OS and your firmware which I have come to suspect is the reason I could never get any other OS to run stable after I wiped windows completely. # 2 >> Boot into your temporary UEFI Windows and dl and run This Program to reveal your product key. Copy and paste it into text file and save it on your usb or email it to urself. # 3 >> From this point, your mileage may vary... if you can find a clean oem installable image of 8.1, god bless your heart. Download it, burn it to disk. Make copies. Otherwise you should be able to launch the Windows 8.1 installer directly from your Live CD/USB... I'm thinkin this is the way I went. Upgrade / Installer # 4 >> Before the install gets too carried away, it asks you for your product key... copy and paste as you see fit, install takes about 20 min and you are good to go. // I did have issues building a bootable UEFI drive at first. The key to this is to use a program like Rufus to create a your drive so that it looks like #### NTFS PARTITION #### | ####UEFI ### | 000000 EMPTY 00000000 |Then, using your favorite martition manager software, move the UEFI partition to the end of the USB medium and expand the ntfs partition.When your done the the partitions should look like #### NTFS PARTITION ################################### | ####UEFI ### | It should boot into UEFI at that point and I think that is where most people fail. Good luck.

Undo tablespace recovery from RMAN backup

Hi,
Lets's assume we have RMAN backup and archivelog backups, and now
my undo tablespace's disk crashed ,how can i recover?
Can i recover while database is up?
Thanks,
Kumar.

to recover UNDO tablespace from RMAN backup you must shutdown the database and start it in the MOUNT state to recover the missing files as follows
rman target /
RUN
STARTUP MOUNT;
ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch3 TYPE Disk;
RESTORE datafile 'c:\u01\prod3\undo01.dbf';
RECOVER datafile 'c:\u01\prod3\undo01.dbf';
ALTER DATABASE OPEN;
RELEASE CHANNEL ch3;
hope this will help you

Photo recovery from itunes backup

Hi,
Today Apple swapped out my daughters IPhone 4S (for the second time in a week) as it had a repeat of a wi-fi issue. They asked me not to restore the iTunes backup as they think that the settings of the old phone may be causing some sort of firmware issue. There lies the problem, the phone is backed up but the photos and contacts are not sync'd to my computer. Is there anyway of extracting the photos from the backup to my pc without restoring the backup to the phone.
I have checked out a couple of extraction apps but they all want to charge me top dollar unless I just extract 1 photo or one contact at a time !!
Thanks in advance

Man, that MediaRECOVER worked great from a preview standpoint! I not only saw my previously deleted photos from the last "roll" but also saw additional photos as well from earlier rolls. I wish I had this a few weeks ago...
Anyway, I haven't purchased it yet as I am in process of erase and installing OSX on my laptop again. I may have been able to get the photos from the a target disk mode data pull onto my older mac, but if that didn't work I'll simply use my latest backup file to restore all of my lost photos and use MediaRECOVER to get the photos that I added after the last backup.
Thanks!!!
PS - For anyone considering using this, make sure you have a media card reader to create a disk image of the flash memory, and don't take any more pictures using that memory until you use MediaRECOVER. The next pictures you take will replace the "deleted" images if you do this.

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