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accidentally deleted empty datafile at OS level, and have no backup of it!!

1006768May 2 2013 — edited May 2 2013
Oracle 11G

Hello
After creating a new datafile, it was accidentally deleted at OS level (AIX).
Because it was new there are no backups of it.
Now tablespace thinks there are 3 datafiles in it, but one of them is missing.

Is it possible to recreate an empty data file on-the-fly?
It has let me set the datafile to offline, but wouldnt let me do anything else.

Now my backups are failing as it recognises :
"the status of database file is RECOVER"

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
This post has been answered by JohnWatson on May 2 2013
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