Re: Standby abuse

Dick,
But that's only if I used RMAN to backup the Logical Standby and recover the Primary from those backups, right? Surely I can use RMAN to backup and recover the Standby itself, can't I?

I understand that attempting to recover the Primary database using backups of the Logical Standby won't work. Scenarios requiring recovery of the Primary would require failover and rebuild (which I understand would be extensive / expensive).

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com
> wrote:

> Dominic,
>
> Well, you might be able to off load your backups to your logical
> standby if your backup method was export/import or Data Pump. But for a
> rman or tape backup you could not because those items are referenced
> elsewhere in the database and if they got out of sync your in serious
> trouble. As in an index entry would be pointing to a bad rowid.
>
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> Dick,
>
> I'd argue that I could definitely off-load my backup needs if I only cared
> about the data, and not so much of the physical aspects of how it's laid
> out. I generally don't like to use ROWIDs as data values since they can
> change, and I can't think of a reason why I'd care if the object id's were
> different -- can you give me an example?
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Goulet, Richard <
> Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com> wrote:
>
>> Dominic,
>>
>> You can't use a logical standby to off load your backup needs. This
>> is because a logical does not replicate the original database, but only the
>> transactions therein. Rowid's and object id's between the two will be
>> different so you can't just move a data file from your logical standby to
>> the primary for recovery purposes. A physical standby is the only way to do
>> that since it does maintain rowid's and the like.
>>
>>
>> *Dick Goulet***
>> Senior Oracle DBA
>> PAREXEL International
>> 978.313.3426
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