RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
You don't need to rebuild when a datafile is added. Once the recovery fails you just issue the create datafile command on the standby. Jay Miller -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 2k First off, your process is doing a

RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-07 Thread Mr Tomasino
Right. Stand-by is exactly what you are trying to simulate. The archive logs will reproduce 99% of what happens in the production environment. In addition, it will provide for a quicker recovery. AT From: Miller, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

Re: Re: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-06 Thread chao_ping
Yechiel Adar, Use standby database, and you won't lost any transaction if your online redo log is there. To add a datafile, just add it in the standby database , no need to rebuild the standby database. Global name have nothing to do with standby,

Re: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-05 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello You did not write if you bring both databases on every night or the backup is down until needed. If it is down you have no problem. If you bring both up you can change the global name : Alter database rename global_name to backupdb; BTW - I am not sure that 8.1.7 need global_name=true. We

Re: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-05 Thread Jared . Still
First off, your process is doing a lot of unnecessary work. Standby databases are available in 7.3.4. I believe that would be somewhat simpler than your current procedure. I haven't tried it though, so I could be wrong. Even with your current procedure, you don't need to copy all of the files,

RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-05 Thread Arif Khan (GWL)
Hello Jared If I run the database in Standby mode, once my production server fails, can the standby database be opened for users to make changes (i.e. read an write) and how do I accomplish that. Also, once my production server is back on line, how do you suggest I should synchronize the

RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-05 Thread Quamrul Polash
Hi Arif, Please read the article Note: 76373.1 on Metalink about Standby database. Regards, Quamrul Polash From: "Arif Khan (GWL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by