How much is the redo volume between yesterday and today One really safe option would be to get controlfile from yesterday and recover As the datafiles already have the changes I suspect the recovery will go pretty fast Regards -----Original Message----- From: Maureen English [mailto:maureen.english@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 6:48 PM To: Pande, Rajendra; andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Controlfiles just got overwritten I have a backup of the controlfiles from yesterday...it was in recreating the standby that caused my problem...I was on the wrong server. - Maureen On 7/14/2014 2:41 PM, rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx wrote: > If you create the controlfile now you will need to run rudimentary > recovery and then open database with reset logs > > Can you not failover to DR and then rebuild the primary > > Or open the DR make the old primary new DR and then do a switch again > > > Regards > > > Please visit our website at http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/E-maildisclaimer.html for important disclosures and information about our e-mail policies. For your protection, please do not transmit orders or instructions by e-mail or include account numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l