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Re: Hardware Replication vs DataGuard

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:45:22 -0800
Message-ID: <1133739905.695713@jetspin.drizzle.com>


Rodrick Brown wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1133727356.397234_at_jetspin.drizzle.com...
>

>>Rodrick Brown wrote:
>>
>>>Putting costs aside what do most people think about using hardware san 
>>>replication technologies like SRDF/Truecopy etc..  for replicating Oracle 
>>>volumes at a block level to a remote instance of Oracle ? vs using 
>>>something like dataguard, I know dataguard allows you to have read only 
>>>access to that data which I think is its biggest plus, but for disaster 
>>>recovery reasons only what would be a better solution.
>>
>>How does one put cost aside? It is substantial.
>>

>
>
> Well given the fact that the storage infrastructure between datacenters are
> already in place (paid for) and dataguard is free i'm looking for a answer
> based on the technology options only.

I'd still be inclined toward DataGuard for one major reason: If something goes terribly wrong ... I know who to call and there won't be any finger pointing.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Sun Dec 04 2005 - 17:45:22 CST

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