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.

1. 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.

2. 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 as needed if the control file locations will be different on the standby database and then change locations. The diagnostic destination and memory must be checked. You also need to set the standby-related parameters we've just covered...