Re: Oracle Mirroring

Oded Kahana <odedc_at_ncc.co.il> schreef in berichtnieuws IwA_4.21587$Y4.112276_at_typhoon2.san.rr.com...
> Hi Fellow DBAs,
>
> I've been recently appointed as ORACLE DBA and I could not find any
> documentation/utility
> of how to implement mirroring. I'm a former Informix 9.2 DBA, and in that
> product I could specify what raw chunk (data file in ORACLE lingo) in disk
 A
> is mirrored by a corresponding raw chunk in disk B. That gave me much
> control on the distribution of table and log data across disk partitions
 and
> controllers.
>
> Is mirroring in ORACLE is completely external to the product (handled by
> operating system or storage sub-system), or is it a package I can purchase
> from ORACLE or third party ?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Oded
>
>

Redo log files and control files can be mirrored by Oracle. Control files should be mirrored by Oracle. The rest is external to Oracle ie an O/S issue.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Mon Jun 05 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT