[Info-vax] Oracle RDB 7.1.5 PRECOMP.EXE (ALPHA)

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/26/21 1:22 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-01-26, Andrea Arthur <aarthur2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>> A colleague reached out to me looking for help recovering the precompile executable that was inadvertently deleted and, of course, has no backup available.
>>
>> On their system, the file was located in the following directory:
>>
>> %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image ORA_PRECOMP:PRECOMP.EXE
>> -CLI-E-IMAGEFNF, image file not found DSA504:[ORACLE.ALPHA_7152.ORACLE.][PROGINT.INCLUDE]PRECOMP
>>
>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> I am confused. Why can't you simply recover it from the backup of
> that disk ? If you have problems with the backup command, tell us
> what the problem is and we might be able to help you.

What part of "and, of course, has no backup available." did you miss?

> 
> I am assuming you have planned for what happens if the disk itself
> fails, so I don't understand why you can't use those procedures to
> recover the deleted file.
> 

Apparently you would be amazed at how many production environments
really  have no plausible backup strategy.  :-)

bill