Re: Recovery from online backup

My apologies, you are correct.  I wasn¹t paying close enough attention to
the statement.  Sorry to spread my confusion.


On 4/19/06 11:09 AM, Radoulov, Dimitre wrote:

>> > Contrary to its syntax, this command does not actually backup the
>> > controlfile.  Rather, it creates a trace file with the commands to recreate
>> > the controlfile.
>  
> Incorrect!
>  
> Backup and Recovery Concepts Release 2(9.2)
>  
> The SQL statement ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE makes a binary backup of
> the control file.
> The SQL statement ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE exports the
> control file contents to a SQL script file. You can use the script to create a
> new control file. Trace file backups have one major disadvantage: they contain
> no records of archived redo logs, offline ranges for datafiles, and RMAN
> backups and copies. For this reason, binary backups are preferable
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Dimitre
> 

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Jason Heinrich
Oracle Database Administrator
Pensacola Christian College

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