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
   Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
   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 backup set
   channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
   including standby control file in backup set
   channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 19-DEC-12
   channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 19-DEC-12
   piece handle=/u01/app/oracle2...