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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Backing up the control file

The control file contains essential information about the current state of the database. You should always back up your control file when you make a user-managed backup. You do this by executing the following command in SQL*Plus:

ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO filename | TO TRACE

You can back up a control file in binary format to a binary location or to a trace file. Backing up the control file to a binary location includes more information and is the method recommended by Oracle. Backing up a control file to a trace file allows you to re-create the control file from the trace file with the CREATE CONTROLFILE command.

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