Time for action – starting the physical standby instance and making it ready for the RMAN duplicate
Execute the following steps to start a database instance on the standby server and make it ready for the RMAN duplicate operation.
- Create a service in Windows.
If you are creating a Data Guard configuration in Windows, you must create a service using the
oradim
utility as follows:oradim -NEW -SID <sid> -STARTMODE manual -PFILE C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\admin\<sid>\pfile\init.ora
You can skip this step if the environment is not Windows.
- Set the standby database initialization parameters:
Copy the
PFILE
from the primary system to the standby system under the$ORACLE_HOME/dbs
directory with the proper name (initINDIA.ora
in our example). Make changes ...
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