Re: Oracle RAC DR test
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:47:07 -0500
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_at_Svetoslav; Recovering from (offsite) backups is called poor man's DR strategy :). I have seen this implemented by few startups who chose to use Oracle and few mid size organizations too.
Thanks
Paresh
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On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Svetoslav Gyurov <softice_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Sanjay, I'm confused, are you testing your backups or you are testing your
> DR ? Usually you setup dataguard before your DR tests ? Why not just
> install GI on the DR site and then setup dataguard replication. Then you
> have plenty of ways testing that - either switchover, converting the
> primary to snapshot database or by opening just read only to verify that
> the data from the primary is received.
>
> However if you are testing your backups I suppose you will install the GI
> on the DR site before the disaster happen. Also I see no particular reason
> to have exactly the same GI version on the DR site ?
>
> Regards,
> Sve
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Austin Hackett <hacketta_57_at_me.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Sanjay
>>
>> I use cloning to install RDBMS binaries and it's pretty straight-forward.
>> Create a zip archive of the source ORACLE_HOME, extract it on the target,
>> run clone.pl from target $ORACLE_HOME/clone/bin, and then run root.sh.
>>
>> Niall Lichfield wrote a nice how-to here:
>> http://orawin.info/blog/2011/07/27/in-praise-of-clones/
>>
>> In a previous role I used cloning for Grid Infrastructure too, but not
>> got around to implementing this at my current place. It worked fine, and I
>> don't remember it being too hard to get working. I followed the steps here:
>> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/rac.112/e41959/clonecluster.htm#CWADD03202
>> .
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> Austin
>>
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