Re: Recreating your control files

I create a binary backup of the control file and also dump the control file to trace. That way, I have both. In most cases, I use the binary backup of the control file. And in most cases, the dump to trace is only used as a reference.

HTH,
Brian

Billy Verreynne wrote:
>
> Peter wrote:
>
> > When you recreate your control files for a crash recovery, why would
> > that be a safe thing to do?
>
> I always do a daily backup of the control file to trace and then keep an
> offline copy of the trace file. Not sure what others do, but this sits more
> comfortable with me.. :-)
>
> --
> Billy

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