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Creating Physical Standby using RMAN Duplicate Without Shutting down The Primary

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.1.0.2 to 10.2.0.4 - Release: 10.1 to 10.2 Information in this document applies to any platform. Oracle Server Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 Goal  - Ref Metalink ID - 789370.1 The following note describes step-by-step procedure to create physical standby by using RMAN duplicate without shutting down the primary (Production) database. Database Name :- prim Primary db_unique_name :- prim standby db_unique_name :- stdby Primary Hostname :- raca.idc.oracle.com standby Hostname :- core1.idc.oracle.com Solution 1.Enable force logging. 2.Create SRL(standby redo logs). 3.Make proper changes in the parameter file of primary. 4.Backup the database that includes backup of datafiles, archivelogs and controlfile for standby and copy the backups to standby server. 5.Create the parameter file for standby, 6.Establish the connectivity from primary to standby. 7. Move backup to standby. 8 and 9. Start the standby instance. 10.U