Am Freitag, den 30.05.2008, 06:51 -0400 schrieb Terrian, Thomas J Mr CTR DLA J6DIB: > Oracle 10g, HPUX, Physical DataGuard, RMAN backups of Primary and > Standby. > > What would be the best way to test our DataGuarded copy if we want to > start it up and applying changes to it? We don't want those changes to > come back to the primary. > > Can we start it up as a regular database but then when we are done use > our RMAN backup of it to restore it to the point were it was still a > standby database? Will the primary database have any problems with > this? > > Anyone done anything like this before? Hi Tom, if we open a standby database for writing, we build afterwards a complete new standby database. Using rman we can do it anytime, even during working hours, so we don't try anything spezial. hth Jörg -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l