Clone standby database without rman

[LKBrwn_DBA]

Thanks hrishy,

That is exactly what I thought, unfortunately for that to work I would need space on the standby server which then I could mount unto the clone server.

That is why I thought of "quiesce" to avoid shutting down the standby during the copy and just mounting the disks unto the clone server.

Also I tried the "quiesce", but first got:

SQL> ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-25500: database is not open

And then:

SQL> ALTER DATABASE OPEN READ ONLY
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced

This is caused because I need to activate the "Oracle Resource Manager" on both the Primary and Standby (which requires shutdown/startup).

Your idea is very good, I will research how to configure the rman channels to write to remote location (vg: cloneserver:/oradata)

Any other ideas are welcome...