I've never tired this but could you ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE and then use that for a CREATE CONTROLFILE?
If you don't have any data missing from your datafiles and all you need to do is make your controlfiles current, this should do it. YTTRI Lisa <lisa.yttri To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L @cnh.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: root cc: Subject: Database Recovery - any options? 03/06/2002 10:28 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L Hi - We've encountered some problems with a Unix reboot and I'm trying to figure out if we have any options other than copying all files back and doing a full recovery. The boot drive was bad on the machine (sun 2.6) and they unix sa replaced it. When it came back up, all of the control files were a old. Also the redo log files were old. The unix sa cannot explain why this happened, so it's my problem to fix it. When I try to start up the database, it says that my files are more recent than my controlfile. Do I have any options other than a full recovery from previous day? This option is OK, since we are archiving, but it is time consuming because there are 8 databases on this machine, each with a large number of datafiles. I appreciate any help, comments and feedback! Lisa -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: YTTRI Lisa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).