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RMAN DUPLICATE command behavior for password files

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When to use the option clause " PASSWORD FILE " in the RMAN DUPLICATE command ?
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Password File in ASM - Oracle release 12c

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Prior to Oracle Database 12c, the password file was always located under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs file structure, even for RAC instances and for RAC ASM cluster. For RAC the DBA organisation had to managed to keep the password file in sync on each node. See for a solution in an earlier blog on my site " Password file maintenance on Clustered ASM and RAC databases 11gR2 and before " Oracle 12c Now in Oracle 12c, it is possible to store the password file on ASM. Wonderfule this means a shared password file for Oracle RAC databases , it is shared for all instances in the cluster.
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