Re: BACKUP CONTROLFILE TRACE

the default directory is UDUMP. if your machine is unix, you can use 'ls -ltr' to find most recently generated trace file. Edit this trace file into a sql file and you can use this sql file to recreate control file.

Lucy

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran wrote:

> HI dba's,
>
> if i did 'alter database backup controlfile to trace'
> this command what will do?, is't create a os trace file?, if so which
> directory by default.
>
> For test case, to recover the db, if controlfiles are lost.
>
> and then i shutdown the db and removed the existing controlfiles from the
> oracle directory.
>
> Now, how can i create the control files from the backup trace file.
>
> Please help me.
>
> Regards,
> Nirmal
>

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