DataGuard Complexities ...

I'm going through the DataGuard docs in Oracle and they seem to be all over the place. I'm trying to avoid using DataGuard Manager in setting this up as I want to understand every step thoroughly, but the docs seem fragmented.

For example, I want to set it up in Maximum Protection mode and set the primary and standby up so that the roles can be reversed with a simple switchover command from the DataGuard Manager command line.

I figure I'm going to go take a course in March. And good docs out there that give a step by step sequence of instructions? In the docs, it says to copy the tablespaces and create the standby control file, but not to copy the redos -- do I add those in manually after I mount the standby? I've got the init.ora settings down pat, but then it mentions I need an extra standby group. For example, if I have 4 redos, I need at least 5 standby groups, and they all have to be the same size. Do the group numbers matter? Man, this is confusing!!

Domenic. Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 21:14:42 CST