Re: Standby Server

"John Guthrie" <oracle_at_guthrie.co.za> wrote in message news:cbbe8225.0211120200.4be4f5cb_at_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?
>

That's exactly what you have to do. The directory path doesn't need to match the original database's (that is, the primary can have files on, say, e:\oradata, and the standby can have the copies on, let's say, c:\oradata). For simplicity's sake, it's nice to have an exact match, but it's not a requirement.

And yes, unless you are using Data Guard Manager, it's up to you to do the copying (and creation of directories etc).

Regards
HJR
> I do not want to loose my "test" database.
>
> Thank you,
> John
Received on Tue Nov 12 2002 - 04:34:43 CST