21 Troubleshooting User-Managed Media Recovery

This chapter describes how to troubleshoot user-managed media recovery, that is, media recovery performed without using Recovery Manager (RMAN).

This chapter includes the following topics:

• About User-Managed Media Recovery Problems

• Investigating the Media Recovery Problem: Phase 1

• Trying to Fix the Recovery Problem Without Corrupting Blocks: Phase 2

• Deciding Whether to Allow Recovery to Corrupt Blocks: Phase 3

• Allowing Recovery to Corrupt Blocks: Phase 4

• Performing Trial Recovery