It's been implemented for several weeks now... no problems so far. :) On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:25, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks, Adric. I figured that was the easiest. I was afraid it was not > supported even if it appears to work. I opened an SR and finally the > analyst suggested the same. We put it in ASM today and will see if we > still get intermittent ORA-245 (control file backup operation failed). > How long ago did you put your snapshot controlfile in ASM? You never > had the error ever since? > > Yong Huang > > > We're using ASM here, for the simple reason that it's the only form of > > shared storage available in the relevant cluster. It's pretty easy to > > configure. > > RMAN> configure snapshot controlfile name to > > '+DISKGROUP/dbname/controlfile/snapcf_dbname.f'; > ... > >> According to Note 1268725.1 and Bug 10263733, on 11.2.0.2 RAC, the > >> snapshot controlfile used during RMAN backup must be placed on shared > >> storage. > -- "I'm too sexy for my code." -Awk Sed Fred