FW: backing up rman catalog for disaster recovery

One very easy way is to do an rman backup with the nocatalog option. This will use controlfile info for restores and recoveries. You can use all the options of rman, just no catalog. That is what we do.

Just my $0.02,
Ruth

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From: Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us
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To: Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us; rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us; all_about_oracle_at_hotpop.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: backing up rman catalog for disaster recovery

I am setting up a disaster recovery site and I was thinking about the best way to do this.

My theory is that I would like to not just use another recovery catalog on the DR site to backup my primary catalog but to somehow keep these catalogs constantly in-synch so when I do need to do complete recovery and only have the secondary rman catalog available - I wouldn't have to recover the catalog as all of the previous backups would be found there.

So....should I do this using Oracle Data Guard on my disaster recovery site catalog or backup rman then restore as my first procedure? Any advice?

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