Standby Database Issues

Hi ,

Oracle 8.1.7.0.0 on HP-UX 11.0
EMC2 Disk Array

We are in a process of implementing DR Site using Standby Database feature of Oracle. We have tested it on 2 NT machines here & things are going fine.
I have few questions about Standby Database which I could not find answer in Backup Recovery Guide.

1. What is the sequence of Startup & Shutdown ? Which shd be started /stopped first ? Primary or Standby ?
2. If I want to take cold backup of Primary Database , can I do that ? Do I need to anything else for ReSyncing Standby ? I am quite curious abt this as Cold Backup on every week is a practice here . e.g. I have copied cold backup from tape to standby & all archive logs from that backup to standby site. Now everything is gong fine. But if I shutdown promary for backup , what shd be the procedure ? Do I need to copy cold backup again ?

Regards,
Mahesh Hardikar Received on Mon Jun 30 2003 - 08:10:32 CEST