Re: Newbie RMAN question: recovery catalogue

From: Ian Chard <ian.chard_at_sers.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:01:28 +0000
Message-ID: <eo5jg8$nl0$1@frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk>

On 11/01/07 14:56, Jerome Vitalis wrote:
> An spfile is not required in your environment but it can be very
> convenient because you can restore it from the controlfile autobackup.
>
> You can do without it, but in case of disaster, you would have to
> recreate the pfile manually (or restore it without RMAN if it is
> included in your server backups.)

Ahh I see, I didn't realise that the SPFILE was stored in the control file, I thought it was just a binary blob stored separately.

Many thanks
- Ian

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