As the documentation about restoring an OCR did not work as it should be, the following has been succesfully tested…

Log on as “root”
# . oraenv +ASM1
# ./ocrconfig -showbackup
# ./ocrconfig -showbackup manual

Stop the cluster on all nodes

# crsctl stop crs

Start the cluster  in exclusive mode, as we need ASM.
The clusterware software will start too by the way!!

# crsctl start crs -excl

check if the diskgroups are online:

# sqlplus / as sysasm
# SQL> select name, state from v$asm_diskgroup;
# SQL> exit;

Stop the clusterware resource (if you don’t do this you won’t be able to restore…):

# crsctl stop resource ora.crsd -init

Restore the OCR:

# ocrconfig -restore file_name

check the restore with:

# ocrcheck

Stop the cluster:

# crsctl stop crs -f

Start the cluster in a normal way

# crsctl start cluster