RE: Backup flash recovery area on shared storage from alternate host?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Kanagaraj wrote:

> If this is a SAN based FRA, can you not use a technology such as
> ShadowImage (HDS) or BCV (EMC) to split the mirror and *mount* it (not
> NFS) as a filesystem on another host that has access to the tape drives?
> (any host is ok but you kill two birds with one stone if this is the
> standby host) Note that the FRA by default is not only the backup area,
> but has the archive logs, flashback logs, etc, so you cannot take it
> offline. Offloading such work requires a *complete* detach - via a
> mirror such as what I describe above...

John,

Thanks. The FRA is in fact on storage that is mounted on the alternate host via NFS while simultaneously mounted on the primary.

The problem is making RMAN read from the local NFS mount on the alternate host, rather than calling RMAN to start a server process on the primary, which is the default behavior when specifying the target.

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