Standby Server

From: John Guthrie <oracle_at_guthrie.co.za>
Date: 12 Nov 2002 02:00:48 -0800
Message-ID: <cbbe8225.0211120200.4be4f5cb@posting.google.com>

I have been investigating the Oracle Standby Server feature. I have read the official Oracle documentation and others. I have followed the steps to configure and setup the Oracle Standby Database.

I have a few questions:
My Standby Database will be on a seperate host which allready has Oracle installed and is currently acting as my "test" database.

One of the steps is: Copy the database files (online or offline) to the standby site.

What I do not understand is, if I allready have Oracle installed on my host which is currently a "test" database and is now also going to act as my Standby database, where do I copy the database files and later the conrol file and other related files to? Do I need to create a new directory structure on the standby host?

I do not want to loose my "test" database.

Thank you,
John Received on Tue Nov 12 2002 - 04:00:48 CST