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is a backup of crashed database usable for log forwarding ?

edited Aug 26, 2009 1:27PM in Database Backup and Recovery (MOSC) 22 commentsAnswered
 Hi, Oracle backup experts,
Assume oracle database 10g with archivelog mode crashed. I know it is advisable to open the database and shutdown cleanly before taking a backup.

But assume my junior DBA did a backup, say BAK,  of the crashed database while if it is down. So it is not a consistent backup. What is the downside of this backup BAK ?

Further, let us say the database is opened after instance recovery and running fine. After a few days, the disks containing all datafiles died. But we do have all
the archived redo logs, plus the backup BAK.

My question is,

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