Re: Disaster Recovery

Hi Just wanted to say that infact its the operating system which is hardware dependant ORACLE has no such restrictions. Only the path or directory of data files and control files should be the same rest allocation of shared memory,semaphores is taken care by the operating system. Please correct if i am wrong but i have proted physically from NT servers of totally different config. regarding RAM,hdd etc and they have worked.

So an exact config. is not required,EXPORT is always there for backup but u have to recompile lot of database objects like libraries etc which usually stop functioning.

REGDS
Ravi

In article <37D8DAB6.3602_at_yahoo.com>,
  connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Paul Mattes wrote:
> >
> > *,
> > If I have an oracle 7.3.3.6 database running under solaris, and I want to
> > recover from a disaster (say the building getting hit by a rocket or
> > something) then
> > my recovery machine would have to be configured EXACTLY as my production
> > machine in order to simply restore from tape, right ?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this is the case (since the control files and datafiles
> > would have to reference the same devices) but I'd like a little
> > confirmation.
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the other option would be to do a complete
> > EXPORT, create a database on the recovery machine and then IMPORT into it .
> >
> > thoughts ?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Paul
>
> Its great if you can ... you just bung the tape it and you're away...
>
> But all things are not lost if you its not...You restore to where you
> can, and during recovery (or just before you start) it is possible to
> have the database mounted so that you can tell the database the true
> location of the files...then you start applying logs etc etc
> --
> ===========================================
> Connor McDonald
> "These views mine, no-one elses etc etc"
> connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com
>
> "Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue."
>

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