Hello everyone,
I had a vmware image running Solaris and hosting Oracle 11g. The actual image ran inside vmware server on a Windows Server 2003 server.
I had two folders (one for Oracle 10g and another for Oracle 11g). I only needed the Oracle 11g image, so I deleted the Oracle 10g image.
I didn't know this, but the Oracle 10g image was somehow the base image for the Oracle 11g. The Oracle 11g folder only had the SNAPSHOTS.
I deleted the based image. There is absolutely no way to retrieve it. During system maintenance I broke the raid and reformatted the drives. So, again, there is no way to recover the Oracle 10g base image.
Does anyone know how I could mount the snapshot files to see if there is anything left that I can extract? It would be a small win, if I can at least mount the snapshot, and retrieve a database dump out of it.
Any ideas? I tried vmware-mount (from some toolkit), but it didnt mount. Perhaps because it was looking for the base image.
Thanks!
Frank