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We have a SQL Server 2008 R2 database that backs up transaction logs every now and then. Today there was a big error in the database caused at around 12am... I have transaction logs up to 8am and then 12am - 16pm - etc. My question is: can I sort of reverse-merge those transaction logs into database, so that I return to the database state at 8am? Or is my best chance to recover an older full backup and restore all transaction logs up to 8am? The first option is preferable since full backup has been performed a bit of a while ago and I am afraid to f*ck things up restoring from there and

I'm trying to inspect my appengine backup files to work out when a data corruption occured. I used gsutil to locate and download the file: gsutil ls -l gs://my_backup/ > my_backup.txt gsutil cp gs://my_backup/LongAlphaString.Mymodel.backup_info file://1.backup_info I then created a small python program, attempting to read the file and parse it using the appengine libraries. #!/usr/bin/python APPENGINE_PATH='/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/' ADDITIONAL_LIBS = [ 'lib/yaml/lib' ] import sys sys.path

I have got a backupset of an Oracle 11g database which was created with RMAN. Now I want to import/restore the backupset onto a new and empty database server. I know that the command to create the backupset was run { backup as compressed backupset database tag "FULLBACKUP" format "/orabackup/rman/backup/FULL_%d_%T_%U"; backup as compressed backupset archivelog all tag "ARCHIVELOGS" format "/orabackup/rman/backup/ARCH_%d_%T_%U" delete all input; } but I cannot find out how to make the files produced by this command known to RMAN on my new database server and import the backupset using RESTORE

Could you people tell me how to zip specified files into same Zip file. Let me tell how my folders are filled : A task scheduler have backups of my databases and save them into a file daily. It creates 4 database backup daily which means there will be 4 more files daily. So I need to zip newly created backups into same zip file (of course it differs from previous day zip file, the zip file will be created for that day for newly created backup files) and I need to do it automatically. Well I know how to make it automatic. I can use Windows task scheduler to automate things. Thanks. Cheeso You

I have a "Data" directory, that I rsync to a remote NAS periodically via a shell script. However, I'd like to make this more efficient. I'd like to detect if something has changed in "Data" before running rsync. This is so that I don't wake up the drives on the NAS unnecessarily. I was thinking of modifying the shell script to get the latest modified time of the files in Data (by using a recursive find), and write that to a file every time Data is rsynced. Before every sync, the shell script can compare the current timestamp of "Data" with the previous timestamp when "Data" was sync'd. If the