Re: Standby on Same box

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:31:48 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c8970902030431r23419bf0r8b911547a5904d03_at_mail.gmail.com>

well for protection against loss of the original box, it's obviously not a great plan! It might provide some protection against logical corruption (the mythical 'junior dba' for example) if configured with a delay.

As far as switchover/switchback goes - that operation doesn't involve a rebuild - though failover does.

Niall Litchfield

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Oracle 10g and 11g.
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> REDHAT LInux
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> I have just been told by a consultant that a standby on the same box
> as a primary is not recommended.(We also have a standby on another
> box) My feeling is that will speedup a rebuild should we ever have to
> switch over and switch back.Any views?
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