Re: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby

Yosi,

Hot standby db protects you from the data corruption. Any kind of mirroring does not - it's just a copy.

HTH,
Michael Netrusov,
www.atelo.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 06:10

> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone give me a quick (free!) lesson on the concepts
> behind timefinder? How does this differ from their standard
> SRDF which (to my understanding) is to split the mirror and
> back it up.
>
> Or is it that they add their BCV stuff to SRDF so you can
> access the data while the mirror is split? Then, is it like
> a Hot Standby DB?
>
> (We used to get something in high school that was some sort
> of mixture between fish and potatoes, and we could never
> figure out if it was fish or if it was potatoes, or both,
> or neither. Somehow, this is reminding me of that.)
>
> Thanks loads,
>
> Yosi
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