1. Which types of backups you can take in Oracle?

3 types of backup Hot, Cold, partial and incremential

2. A database is running in NOARCHIVELOG mode then which type of backups you can
take?
Cold backup ( shutdown immediate , startup mount and backup database and after startup
a database)
3. Can you take partial backups if the Database is running in NOARCHIVELOG mode?
No, database must be offline.
4. Can you take Online Backups if the the database is running in NOARCHIVELOG
mode?
No, only with archivelog
5. How do you bring the database in ARCHIVELOG mode from NOARCHIVELOG
mode?
SQL>shutdown immediate; SQL>startup mount; SQL> alter database archivelog; SQL>
alter database open;
6. You cannot shutdown the database for even some minutes, then in which mode you
should run
the database?
RMAN>startup explicite;
7. Where should you place Archive logfiles, in the same disk where DB is or another
disk?
Other disk
8. Can you take online backup of a Control file if yes, how?
RMAN> backup current controlfile;
9. What is a Logical Backup?
A logical backup (import/export) of a database exports the database objects independent
of the physical location of those objects. In other words, a logical backup exports the data
stored in a table regardless of the location of the table (such as tablespace or datafile).
10. Should you take the backup of Logfiles if the database is running in ARCHIVELOG
mode?
Yes
11. Why do you take tablespaces in Backup mode?
SQL>alter system tablespace offline;
12. What is the advantage of RMAN utility?
Make backup when the database is running
13. How RMAN improves backup time?
Scheduler task with file rcv
14. Can you take Offline backups using RMAN?
No.
15. How do you see information about backups in RMAN?
RMAN>show all;
16. What is a Recovery Catalog?
Backup caltalog
17. Should you place Recovery Catalog in the Same DB?
No
18. Can you use RMAN without Recovery catalog?
Yes
19. Can you take Image Backups using RMAN?
No
20. Can you use Backupsets created by RMAN with any other utility?
No
21. Where RMAN keeps information of backups if you are using RMAN without
Catalog?
RMAN>show all;
22. You have taken a manual backup of a datafile using o/s. How RMAN will know about
it?
RMAN catalog
23. You want to retain only last 3 backups of datafiles. How do you go for it in RMAN?
RMAN>configure retention policy to redundancy 3;
24. Which is more efficient Incremental Backups using RMAN or Incremental Export?
Incremental backup with posibilites level 0 & 1
25. Can you start and shutdown DB using RMAN?
Yes
26. How do you recover from the loss of datafile if the DB is running in
NOARCHIVELOG mode?
RMAN>startup nomount; RMAN> SQL ‘alter database datafile6 offline;
RMAN>recover datafile6;
27. You loss one datafile and it does not contain important objects. The important objects
are there in other datafiles which are intact. How do you proceed in this situation?
RMAN> restore datafile5;
28. You lost some datafiles and you don’t have any full backup and the database was
running in NOARCHIVELOG mode. What you can do now?
SQL> startup mount; SQL>flashback database to timestamp sysdate -1/24; or
SQL>flashback to scn (ex.436982938)…; SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
29. How do you recover from the loss of datafile if the DB is running in ARCHIVELOG
mode?
RMAN> startup mount RMAN> restore database; with the last full backup
30. You loss one datafile and DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode. You have full
database backup of 1 week old and partial backup of this datafile which is just 1 day old.
From which backup should you restore this file?
RMAN>startup mount; RMAN> restore database; RMAN> recover database;
31. You loss controlfile how do you recover from this?
RMAN> restore current controlfile; RMAN> restore spfile;
32. The current logfile gets damaged. What you can do now?
RMAN> alter database open restlogs;
33. What is a Complete Recovery?
RMAN> restore database; full restore database
34. What is Cancel Based, Time based and Change Based Recovery?
- A cancel-based recovery is a type of user-managed incomplete recovery that is
performed by specifying the UNTIL CANCEL clause with the RECOVER command (a
SQL*Plus command that is used to recover a database). The UNTIL CANCEL clause
specifies that the recovery process will continue until the user manually cancels the
recovery process issuing the CANCEL command.
-Time-Based, Change-Based, or SCN-based Incomplete Recovery
Incomplete recovery uses a backup to produce a non-current version of the database. In
other words, you
do not apply all of the redo records generated after the most recent backup.
You usually perform incomplete recovery of the whole database in the following
situations:
Media failure destroys some or all of the online redo logs.
A user error causes data loss, for example, a user inadvertently drops a table.
You cannot perform complete recovery because an archived redo log is missing.
You lose your current control file and must use a backup control file to open the database.
To perform incomplete media recovery, you must restore all datafiles from backups
created prior to the time to which you want to recover and then open the database with
the RESETLOGS option when recovery completes. The RESETLOGS operation creates
a new incarnation of the database; in other words, a database with a new stream of log
sequence numbers starting with log sequence 1.
35. Some user has accidentally dropped one table and you realize this after two days. Can
you recover this table if the DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode?
SQL>flashback table name to timestamp to scn (ex. 436982938);
36. Do you have to restore Datafiles manually from backups if you are doing recovery
using RMAN?
Yes
37. A database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode since last one month. A datafile is
added to the database last week. Many objects are created in this datafile. After one week
this datafile gets damaged before you can take any backup. Now can you recover this
datafile when you don’t have any backups?
Yes
38. How do you recover from the loss of a controlfile if you have backup of controlfile?
RMAN>restore current controlfile;
39. Only some blocks are damaged in a datafile. Can you just recover these blocks if you
are using RMAN?
Yes
40. Some datafiles were there on a secondary disk and that disk has become damaged and
it will take some days to get a new disk. How will you recover from this situation?
RMAN>restore datafile6;
41. Have you faced any emergency situation. Tell us how you resolved it?
Restore database with dump file
42. At one time you lost parameter file accidentally and you don’t have any backup. How
you will recreate a new parameter file with the parameters set to previous values.
Restore complet machime with image ghost.