Re: Disk failover

The user/group ids for the oracle user need to be the same too - things don't work at all if they are not. and as I recall the cause of the failure is non-obvious, shall we say. ;) So if the system disk was not moved over, this could cause major fubar'd-ness.

janine

On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I agree with what everyone else said. I wonder what this person was
> talking about? Maybe he meant while the database stayed up?
>
> Just remember that all the mount points need to named exactly the same
> on both machines. But this is obvious.
>
> Tom
>
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> Subject: Disk failover
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Can someone please confirm for me the ability to unmount a set of
> disks
> on
> Server A, mount those same disks onto Server B (Same O/S, unique named
> disks), and bring up the database on server B. I know I have done
> this
> before, but I was just in a meeting where someone told me that you
> can't
> do
> this with Oracle, and that they tested it. This is with 9i by the way
>
> Thanks
>
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