How to fix the Oracle error ORA-32011: cannot restore SPFILE to location already being used by the instance?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-32011: cannot restore SPFILE to location already being used by the instance with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-32011: cannot restore SPFILE to location already being used by the instance

Reason for the Error ORA-32011: cannot restore SPFILE to location already being used by the instance

A restore operation trying to write to an SPFILE that was used to startup the instance.

How to fix the Error ORA-32011: cannot restore SPFILE to location already being used by the instance ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Specify a different SPFILE name