Oracle IS installed on the test machines. I have a working RAC
development environment, with OCFS. The "duplicate database" method is
just how I want to refresh the data on a periodic basis (I've used
exp/imp, but when "duplicate" works, it's a lot cleaner). You have to
have a working auxiliary instance to duplicate to using RMAN. While I
could (and have) successfully duplicated from RAC to a non-rac single
instance, I use the RAC dev setup to test apps just prior to
implementation, Windows security patches, etc. This is critical as a
RAC environment can behave differently than a single instance and can
be affected by things that a single instance may not be.
Jesse
Received on Wed Apr 06 2005 - 09:14:04 CDT
