Re: Oracle RAC DR test

The reason for this exercise to check the Tape backup stored offline at remote locations. Company has more than 800+ database and dataguard cannot be setup due to licenses/Servers cost as well as are not mission critical systems. So these environment are regularly backed up on tape which are stored offline and has to be tested on regular basis for any natural disasters.

Also thanks to all as I tested the process using Oracle document and it worked with no errors. I used My laptop with Oracle virtual box with OEM 6 and same patched 11g R2 version. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/rac.112/e41959/clonecluster.htm#CWADD03202

Tx
Sanjay

On Sunday, December 15, 2013 4:49 PM, Paresh Yadav <yparesh_at_gmail.com> wrote:  

_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.
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>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 ?
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>On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Austin Hackett <hacketta_57_at_me.com> wrote:
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>Hi Sanjay
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>>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.
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>>Niall Lichfield wrote a nice how-to here: http://orawin.info/blog/2011/07/27/in-praise-of-clones/
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>>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.
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>>Hope that helps
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