Recovery at OS level to recover DB files
This is an interesting paper on using OS level file recovery to recover datafiles in Postgres and could theoretically work on Oracle as well.
http://www-edlab.cs.umass.edu/cs691i/files/DBforensics.pdf
I will post here and when I have tried this process out on Oracle.


March 21st, 2007 at 10:07 AM
The PDF doesn’t seem to be accessible at this link.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:00 PM
Hello Gary,
The University where the research was done have made the link private since I posted it.
I may have a copy of it somewhere.. So if you would like and if the author is OK I could send on.
The paper was basically about recovering data the RDBMS had deleted from the OS level.
The author had success doing this with Postgres and I thought it would be interesting to try out something similar with Oracle.
Cheers,
Paul