bash-3.00$ ls -lrt total 3720312 -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 69214208 Nov 27 17:41 temp02.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 10493952 Nov 27 17:41 ttstest.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Nov 27 17:45 redo02.log -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Nov 27 18:14 redo03.log drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1024 Nov 27 18:14 arch -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5251072 Nov 27 18:20 users01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52436992 Nov 27 18:20 cooldata02.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 419438592 Nov 27 18:20 cooldata01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 367009792 Nov 27 21:37 sysaux01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 173023232 Nov 27 21:41 undotbs01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 629153792 Nov 27 21:45 system01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Nov 27 21:45 redo01.log -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7061504 Nov 27 21:49 control03.ctl -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7061504 Nov 27 21:49 control01.ctl -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7061504 Nov 27 21:49 control02.ctl bash-3.00$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba" SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Nov 27 21:49:58 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> host pwd /export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB SQL> host mkdir backup SQL> alter database begin backup; Database altered. SQL> host cp *.dbf backup/ SQL> alter database end backup; Database altered. SQL> SQL> alter database backup controlfile to trace as '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/backup/controlfile.trc'; Database altered. SQL> alter database backup controlfile to '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/backup/control01.ctl'; Database altered. SQL> host rm *.dbf SQL> host ls arch control01.ctl control02.ctl control03.ctl redo01.log redo02.log redo03.log backup SQL> host rm *.ctl SQL> host ls arch redo01.log redo02.log redo03.log backup SQL> create table eser as select * from dba_objects; create table eser as select * from dba_objects * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01116: error in opening database file 1 ORA-01110: data file 1: '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/system01.dbf' ORA-27041: unable to open file SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 SQL> SQL> shu abort ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 1258291200 bytes Fixed Size 2126904 bytes Variable Size 513641416 bytes Database Buffers 738197504 bytes Redo Buffers 4325376 bytes ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info bash-3.00$ cp ./backup/*.dbf . bash-3.00$ ls -lrt total 3686554 -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Nov 27 17:45 redo02.log -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Nov 27 18:14 redo03.log drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1024 Nov 27 18:14 arch drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1024 Nov 27 21:54 backup -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Nov 27 21:56 redo01.log -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 419438592 Nov 27 21:58 cooldata01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52436992 Nov 27 21:58 cooldata02.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 367009792 Nov 27 21:59 sysaux01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 629153792 Nov 27 21:59 system01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 69214208 Nov 27 21:59 temp02.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 10493952 Nov 27 21:59 ttstest.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 173023232 Nov 27 21:59 undotbs01.dbf -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5251072 Nov 27 21:59 users01.dbf bash-3.00$ vi ./backup/controlfile.trc STARTUP NOMOUNT CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "JUNKDB" NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG MAXLOGFILES 16 MAXLOGMEMBERS 3 MAXDATAFILES 100 MAXINSTANCES 8 MAXLOGHISTORY 292 LOGFILE GROUP 1 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/redo01.log' SIZE 50M, GROUP 2 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/redo02.log' SIZE 50M, GROUP 3 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/redo03.log' SIZE 50M DATAFILE '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/system01.dbf', '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/undotbs01.dbf', '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/sysaux01.dbf', '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/users01.dbf', '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/cooldata01.dbf', '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/cooldata02.dbf' CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P9 ; SQL> shu abort ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> startup nomount ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 1258291200 bytes Fixed Size 2126904 bytes Variable Size 513641416 bytes Database Buffers 738197504 bytes Redo Buffers 4325376 bytes SQL> SQL> STARTUP NOMOUNT CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "JUNKDB" NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG MAXLOGFILES 16 MAXLOGMEMBERS 3 MAXDATAFILES 100 ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it down first SQL> 2 3 4 5 MAXINSTANCES 8 6 MAXLOGHISTORY 292 7 LOGFILE 8 GROUP 1 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/redo01.log' SIZE 50M, 9 GROUP 2 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/redo02.log' SIZE 50M, 10 GROUP 3 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/redo03.log' SIZE 50M 11 DATAFILE 12 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/system01.dbf', 13 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/undotbs01.dbf', 14 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/sysaux01.dbf', 15 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/users01.dbf', 16 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/cooldata01.dbf', 17 '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/cooldata02.dbf' 18 CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P9 19 ; Control file created. SQL> select status from v$instance; STATUS ------------ MOUNTED SQL> alter database open; alter database open * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01113: file 1 needs media recovery ORA-01110: data file 1: '/export/d3120/oradata/JUNKDB/system01.dbf' SQL> recover database; Media recovery complete. SQL> SQL> alter database open; Database altered. SQL> select status from v$instance; STATUS ------------ OPEN