From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri May 27 15:52:36 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4RKqa7h015257 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 15:52:36 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4RKqaNi015253 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 15:52:36 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D1B061B2F40; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:49:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32653-01; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:49:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 534E2380C; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:49:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42977962.9020705@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:47:46 -0700 From: Mark Bole User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Data Guard question. References: In-Reply-To: Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 20390 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: makbo@pacbell.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: makbo@pacbell.net X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 Ron Rogers wrote: > List, > I have been looking into using Data Guard as a method of providing HA is = > the company decides it is an option they want to invest in. > The question that I have are. > 1. Using a physical database as the Data Guard, does the second server = > have to have the exact same physical equipment for the disks or does it = > just have to be the same directory structure? [...] Doesn't even require that, since a physical standby can be on the same machine as the primary if desired. Check the Data Guard manual for the section "Standby Database Directory Structure Considerations" and the DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT and LOG_FILE_NAME_CONVERT parameters. -- Mark Bole http://www.bincomputing.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l