Does that 'shift' to the standby take a minute to complete? Are you down
for the time it takes to 'shift'? If so, then you are not truly 7x24. What
would a true 7x24 solution be?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark.cilia_at_bov.com [mailto:mark.cilia_at_bov.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:52 AM
> To: Sajid Iqbal
> Cc: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com; oracledba_at_lazydba.com
> Subject: Re: Replication
>
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> We are in the same situation where we cannot afford a single
> minute of downtime.
>
> We are using oracle 734 on a sun cluster. we also have another
> backup machine
> that we are restoring an ebu backup on a daily basis.
>
> But now we are thinking of moving to 8i where we can use the
> backup database as
> a standby database as well as a read-only database. In that way,
> we can shift
> some workload (queries and reports) from the main database and
> use the backup
> database. In case of failure, we shift from the main database to
> the standby
> backup database.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions and/or problems that you
> encountered ..... please
> feel free to share
>
> TIA
> mark
>
>
>
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