Re: Questions about Standby Database

"Jeffrey Keung" <jkeung_at_hknet.com> wrote in message news:3DAE8804.114A51FC_at_hknet.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I am newbie in this news group and i would like to ask some questions
> here:
> Recently i am planning to setup a standby database at my company, and i
> am working on a
> architectural document about it.
>
> My setup will be as following:
> - Primary database, with ARCHIVELOG mode.
> - use cron jobs in HP_UX to copy the archived redo log files every hour
> to the standby site
> thru FTP and manually applied the log files every 6 hours.
>
> I have tested with the setup above and it works fine.
> Now, I need to brainstorm what problems i will faced when it come to
> production.
> However, i can only think of :
> - Log files failed to copy thru FTP and DBA need to recover the standby
> manually.
>
> Does anyone have any idea or foresee what problem i will faced for the
> above setup ?
> Thank you very much.
>
> Jeffrey
>

Hi Jeffrey

You haven't specified a database version so I can't be sure but is there any reason why you're not using Oracle's Standby Database/Data Guard for this ?

Cheers

Richard Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 07:20:44 CDT