finding and fixing block corruption in oracle 10g
Guess2May 21 2012 — edited May 22 201210.2.0.5.6
OS: Hp-unix
databases files on RAW.
DB Size: 10 TBs+
We had a SAN outage recently. The DB is back online. We want to check for block corruption to be on the safe side. We are planning to take a SAN EMC BCV copy of prod to run this. Looking for opinioms on the best way.Production is up and running. This is just a sanity check.
We are NOT using RMAN for backups. We do a BCV copy and then back that up and archive logs to tape.
RMAN: Can we do this from the control files? Do we have to set anything up? Is this the best way?
DBMS_REPAIR: I have not used this. We don't even have the package installed. I can install it.
DB_VERIFY: not sure if this is a good option or not. Is this current? I know I'll have to do it file by file and grep the logs. I have used this in the past, but its been a while.
Performance issues, CPU, I/O don't matter. We are doing a BCV copy and then mounting the DB on a new server.