Description About Some Important Files Present On $ORACLE_HOME/dbs

$ORACLE_HOME/dbs -- hc_<sid>.dat
HC stands for a health check monitoring. It contains information used to monitor the instance health, and to determine why it went down if the instance isn't up. The file will be recreated at every instance startup. You don't need to back it up.

$ORACLE_HOME/dbs -- lk_<sid>
It's a lock file which means that the Oracle shared memory segment is locked by a process or processes.if you shut down you db and this file still exists, you won't be able to restart the db until the file is gone.And an Oracle process(s) is not releasing it's lock on shared memory, not really normal behaviour if the file lock doesn't clean up by itself, then you might have to run ipcs to see what s being held.

$ORACLE_HOME/dbs -- snapcf_<sid>
Oracle takes snapshot and store it in snapcf_SID.f file.The faster way to restore control file is restoring from this snapshot than rman and cold backup restoration controlfile from this snap shot restore controlfile, restores the snapshot controlfile (all versions) restore controlfile from autobackup (9i and higher) takes the autobackup controlfile.