Re: Disaster Recover Scenario - a few questions

Dave wrote:

> Hey all, we are planning a DRP(Diaster Recover Plan) for our critical
> apps. We purchased hardware/support from a 3rd party and in Jan we
> will be travelling to their site to do a recovery. My question is, a
> few of our databases are on Solaris and a few are on NT. On NT I will
> have to install the software from scratch.
>
> First let me say that we won't be running on identical hardware... It
> will be able to support the same OS versions we have now (2.8/2.6, etc)
> but the hardware will be different. Will we have any issues starting
> up Oracle after an OS restore? Other than hardware, everything else
> will be identical, ie paths, etc. Patch levels may differ slightly.
> I'm 95% confident I can start up Oracle fine in this scenario.. Am I
> correct?
>
> I remember back in the 7.3 and 8.0 days we'd install Oracle once and
> then tar it up so we wouldn't have to install it over and over.
> Any comments?
>
> Tnx.

Is there an Oracle version number anywhere in your post? If so I missed it.

Personally I can't think of too many reasons to do anything above and beyond RMAN which you, I expect, already have.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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