Time for action – recreating the standby control file

This action shows how to renew the standby control file in a Data Guard environment with OMF.

  1. In the primary database, create a backup of the standby control file with the following RMAN statements:
    $rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Dec 19 22:18:05 2012
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connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1319333016)

RMAN> BACKUP CURRENT CONTROLFILE FOR STANDBY FORMAT 'standbyctl.bkp';
Starting backup at 19-DEC-12
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=149 device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile ...

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