Re: Fault Tolerence, Basic Replication.

If you can afford to loose the current online redo, then why not use Oracle7/8 standby database feature, it allows to be setup a standby databases in recovery mode that is not open until you activate it after a failure on your production server. This feature is available to workgroup server. Otherwise if you have a MSCS configuration you could conside Oracle Failsafe (which is free and available for Workgroup and Enterprise Edition). The standby database feaure is very useful and is to be much developed in 8.1 (hopefully to allow it to be read only).

Regards
David Russell

Mark Powell wrote in message <6kluhg$m7f$1_at_news.u-net.com>...
>At the moment I am setting up an Oracle database, I need to build in some
>sort of fault tolerence into the system. This does not need to be
>completely mission critical, but a down time of 30 minutes would be quite
>unexceptable.
>
>I need a solution to use. We have two Oracle boxes, at present ones live
>and ones for a backup/test purposes. Really I require to have the data
>replicated on the fly, but don't require both database to be read/write
>(although this would be nice). Can't really justify the cost of Enterprise
>Edition (Using Workgroup server atm) purely for this ability.
>
>Any suggestion? (Directions towards what section of the
>Backup/Recovery/Replication forest to read!).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark.
>
>
>
Received on Sat May 30 1998 - 16:37:32 CDT