Standby Rebuild until SCN

Implementation Steps

Cancel Recovery on Standby
SQL> alter database recover managed standby database cancel;

Trying to recover on Standby
SQL> recover standby database;
ORA-00279: change 4146871739 generated at 12/31/2008 11:39:03 needed for thread 1
ORA-00289: suggestion : Z:\ORACLE\ORADATA\SATI\ARCHIVE\1_205_674755717.ARC
ORA-00280: change 4146871739 for thread 1 is in sequence #205

Check current_scn on Standby
SQL> select current_scn from v$database;
CURRENT_SCN
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4146871738

Create an Incremental Backup from this SCN on the Primary DB
Z:\backup> rman target sys@PROD_PRIMARY
RMAN> backup incremental from scn 4146871738 database tag 'FORSTANDBY' FORMAT 'Z:\BACKUP\FOR_STANDBY_%U';


Backup the Controlfile for ‘Standby’ on the Primary DB
RMAN> backup current controlfile for standby format 'Z:\BACKUP\FORSTDBYCTRL.bkp';

Transfer the Incremental Backup Sets from Primary DB to the Standby Server (Location = C:\Temp\Incr_Backup)
cd Z:\BACKUP
copy FOR_STANDBY_*.* \\STANDBY\C:\TEMP\INCR_BACKUP
copy FORSTDBYCTRL.bkp \\STANDBY\C:\TEMP\INCR_BACKUP

Restore controlfile on the Standby
RMAN> RESTORE STANDBY CONTROLFILE FROM 'C:\TEMP\INCR_BACKUP\FORSTDBYCTRL.BKP';

Catalog the Incremental Backups on the Standby Server
Note that for the catalog command to succeed you will need to move the backups to be within the Flash Recovery Area.
RMAN> catalog start with 'C:\FRA\SATISTD\BACKUPSET';

Recover the Database and Cleanup Redologs on the Standby Server
RMAN> recover database noredo;
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SQL> alter database flashback off;
SQL> alter database flashback on;
SQL> alter database recover managed standby database disconnect from session;

If more archived logs were created on the primary since the finish of the SCN based incremental backup then you can copy them over and recover the standby database using the command : “recover standby database;”