Just move one of the controlfiles to another directory before startup of your cold backup and after cold backup finishes, you can put it back in the original directory. But why you need this, at least the people who are managing the databases, should know that it's backup time and they should not try to start............. And those who don't know the backup timings shouldn't be having privileges to startup database isn't it ;-)
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