Mounting a standby database with an older standby controlfile (Manual)

Hi,
We recently created a standby database and mounted it with a standby controlfile that was at least 1 month older than than the datafiles. The database was not taken out of recovery mode or opened. When we attempted to recovery the database using the older standby control file, it requested an archival log that was much older than SCN for the datafiles.
My question is: Is it possible to create a new standby controlfile (CREATE STANDBY CONTROLFILE TO <file>) from the production live system and put the standby database back into recovery mode to apply newer/recent archivelogs? Or essentially has anything been corrupted?
The database is 10.2.0.4 on Sun Solaris. Also, the this is manual standby, not automatic (RMAN).
Thanks in advance.

user6676819 wrote:
Hi,
We recently created a standby database and mounted it with a standby controlfile that was at least 1 month older than than the datafiles. The database was not taken out of recovery mode or opened. When we attempted to recovery the database using the older standby control file, it requested an archival log that was much older than SCN for the datafiles.
My question is: Is it possible to create a new standby controlfile (CREATE STANDBY CONTROLFILE TO <file>) from the production live system and put the standby database back into recovery mode to apply newer/recent archivelogs? Or essentially has anything been corrupted?Hi.That is not possible.In your case best way is getting incremental backup from primary database and apply that into standby database then place stanby database in recover mode.To doing this see below thread.
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