From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Feb 2 17:29:07 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j12NT7XN010032 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:29:07 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j12NT6em010028 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:29:07 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 612B86CB57; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:28:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03481-06; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:28:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D7F066C7EC; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:28:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42015389.6060509@allegientsystems.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:26:17 -0500 From: Mladen Gogala User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: iamanoracledba@yahoo.com Cc: "Oracle L (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Diff between "controlfile autobackup" and "snapshot controlfile" References: <20050202212552.24682.qmail@web53103.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050202212552.24682.qmail@web53103.mail.yahoo.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 15709 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mgogala@allegientsystems.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mgogala@allegientsystems.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Sam Reddy wrote: > Why there are two of these options ? > > > There is no difference. Those two options both produce a backup of controlfile which can be used to recover database using backup controlfile. The two options are here to confuse the enemy. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l