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    media recovery - way out

    i cannot perform online backup because media recovery is not enable, can anyone help me out pls.

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    that doesnt make any sense, you dont enable media recovery, you perform it

    so pos what you are doing and what error you are getting

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    DB might not be in Archive log Mode ....

    Send us the output of:

    SQL>archive log list

    Regards,
    Paresh

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    Quote Originally Posted by pareshjavkar
    DB might not be in Archive log Mode ....
    huh?

    ... how did you manage to translate "media recovery..." into ""DB is not in archivelog mode"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PAVB
    huh?

    ... how did you manage to translate "media recovery..." into ""DB is not in archivelog mode"?
    He is unable to perform online backup ... huh

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    Quote Originally Posted by pareshjavkar
    He is unable to perform online backup ... huh
    ... or perhaps poster has one or more datafiles in need of media recovery... huh?
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

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    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAVB
    ... or perhaps poster has one or more datafiles in need of media recovery... huh?
    Yes, I agree, question seems to be confusing, so just tried to check some basics ... maybe an alert.log might help ...

    Also,

    SQL> select * from v$recover_file output would provide some insight.

    Thanks, PAVB for showing the right path.

    Regards,
    Paresh

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