I've got a customer on 8i (700Gb) that wants a standby on a remote location (across the WAN..far far away).

While I've implemented several standbys across the WAN on 9i (with managed recovery and LGWR XptMode), and earlier versions (8i, 7.3.4) by manually transporting logs via scripts; I have never used "managed recovery on a 8i database” (with a default ARCH Xptmode; since there’s no concept of SRLs and LGWR Xptmodes in 8i). I was wondering if anyone could share their experience how well this performs - on a somewhat active (100Meg/min) reasonably big database across a flaky WAN. While 9i handles managed recovery pretty well, I don't know about 8i.

How well does 8i handle network interrupts? Say the RFS fails, does it automatically retry transmitting logs that failed after a certain time (reopen clause)? Or does it involve taking care of it manually (copying the failed logs), and restarting the "managed recovery" everytime?

I’m aware of how 8i managed recovery is “supposed to work” on paper..I’m looking for opinions from folks who manage a standby environment (8i) across the WAN. How painless is 8i managed recovery?

Thanks, Anand