Re: Newbie RMAN question: recovery catalogue

From: Ian Chard <ian.chard_at_sers.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:39:06 +0000
Message-ID: <eo50jq$ggf$1@frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk>

On 10/01/07 11:10, sybrandb wrote:
> Many people at Oracle state you don't need one.
> There is one precaution of course: you should make sure you AUTOBACKUP
> your controlfile and use a SPFILE. If you don't have a catalog database
> the backup info is in the controlfile, so you absolutely need to have a
> proper backup of the controlfile.

Many thanks for your reply. I've done "CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON" for each instance -- presumably that's all that is needed.

Can I ask why an SPFILE is required?

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