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    Physical standby experiences

    Hi Folks

    What kind of problems have you faced while managing a standby database can you share it here.
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    For me, the biggest challenge is to minimize the "down-time" of the standby when it has to be rebuilt following a restore or an unrecoverable/nologging operation on the primary db.

    If the standby is very far from the primary (as it should be for disaster recovery), the data transport may take a considerable time.

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    Hee hee get with me in about a month. I'm going to implement one here.

    I'm going with 9.2.0.5 and I think I'll go ahead and use the redo log applied function instead of archive.

    here's my hardware.

    Sun V880 - prod primary. Located down the road about 2 miles.
    Sun E-5500 - prod hot standby. Here locally.
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    Originally posted by OracleDoc
    . . . down the road about 2 miles.
    Just the right distance for that classic data transfer method - a boy on a bike!

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    Originally posted by DaPi
    For me, the biggest challenge is to minimize the "down-time" of the standby when it has to be rebuilt following a restore or an unrecoverable/nologging operation on the primary db.

    If the standby is very far from the primary (as it should be for disaster recovery), the data transport may take a considerable time.
    You can put force the db into logging mode, correct?
    Can you clarify what you mean by unrecoverable?
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    Originally posted by stmontgo
    You can put force the db into logging mode, correct?
    Yes, with ALTER DATABASE FORCE LOGGING;
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    Originally posted by stmontgo
    You can put force the db into logging mode, correct?
    Yes.
    However, I have chosen "nologging" for some big changes at the weekend, knowing that I had plenty of time to rebuild the standby.

    Originally posted by stmontgo
    Can you clarify what you mean by unrecoverable?
    If my memory serves me, the "unrecoverable" keyword was used in version 7 - "nologging" as from version 8.

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    I've worked with physical standby's on 7.x,8i,9i - across LANs and WANs. 7.x - manual recovery and logxpt, 8i - manual and managed recovery/logxpt, 9i - managed recovery/logXpt and DG.

    All of the above work beautifully EXCEPT 8i ARCH logxpt and managed recovery across the WAN. It is a piece of cr@p if your WAN is flaky. It doesn't do any GAP resolution. The only way to go is - 'manual', if you're replicating over the WAN.

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    Originally posted by Axr2
    I've worked with physical standby's on 7.x,8i,9i - across LANs and WANs. 7.x - manual recovery and logxpt, 8i - manual and managed recovery/logxpt, 9i - managed recovery/logXpt and DG.

    All of the above work beautifully EXCEPT 8i ARCH logxpt and managed recovery across the WAN. It is a piece of cr@p if your WAN is flaky. It doesn't do any GAP resolution. The only way to go is - 'manual', if you're replicating over the WAN.
    get your butt on 9i and stop complaining about gap resolution ;-)
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    I don't have a say in the matter. We are primarily hosters (who also develop, upgrade and support when asked/paid). So much so that even if you were on version 6, we'd only be too happy to host it for you..

    PS : Footer - same as light. Am ready for another.

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