24x7 with full backup

My company just made a decision to go 24x7 with oracle 8.0.5.

I am stuck with finding out if there is an easy way (i know that within oracle nothing is every easy) to get an oracle server up with 24 hours - 7 days a week access. And if the server dies, be back up - with minimum data loss within 1/2 hour.

I have heard about oracle 8 with enterprise server and replication.

Does that sound like the right path?

I have no experiance with replication and do not know what its performance is or how complicated it is to:

	set up
	manage
	cut over to backup if the primary is down
	go back to primary when it is up to date

I know this is a long question - sorry.

thanks ahead for any info
GA Received on Mon Apr 19 1999 - 08:23:29 CDT