CREATING A PHYSICAL STANDBY ON ASM 11gR2

Task 1: Gather Files and Perform Back Up
1. On the primary node, create a staging directory. For example: [testasm] /home/oracle >mkdir -p /u02/stage
2. Create the same exact path on one of the standby hosts: [testdb] /home/oracle >mkdir -p /u02/stage
3. On the primary node, connect to the primary database and create a PFILE from the
SPFILE in the staging directory. For example: SQL> create pfile='/u02/stage/inittestasm.ora' from spfile;
File created.
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