Re: Oracle Failsafe questions

Hi James:

I'm only being mildly flippant when I suggest that you take the opportunity to migrate both to a supported version of Oracle (9i R2, as a for example!), and to Real Application Clusters.

Doing both would definitely be the 'best way' of migrating!

As to your specifics: the FailSafe product has a server component that needs to be installed on each node of the Cluster, onto the private disk of each node. There is then a FailSafe Manager component which is installed on a client to manage the failovers.

I've no idea what the SAMPLE database is: I assume it's just a cluster-sized equivalent to ye olde SCOTT.EMP schema.... to practice with, without stuffing up real data. It's certainly not a core component that's required to make things work.

Regards
HJR "James Chappell" <james_at_rees-chappell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:HUgOULA$Jds9EwcW_at_rees-chappell.demon.co.uk...
> We've currently got Oracle 8.1.6 on a single server, and we're going to
> move this to a clustered pair of w2k servers, with Oracle Failsafe.
>
> * What's the best way of doing the migration?
>
> * What's the purpose of the SAMPLE database that Failsafe produces?
>
> * Which box (or boxes) should Failsafe be installed on - the servers, a
> client, somewhere else all together?
>
> Appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> James Chappell
Received on Sat Oct 19 2002 - 23:26:42 CDT