drdb? Yes. Or you can (depending on your hardware) do block-based remote replication with your disk arrays. Block-based replication will tend to require more network bandwidth, but -- done right -- you can save money on Oracle licenses at the DR site. The cost of Oracle licenses can sometimes pay for a LOT of bandwidth. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Masha Gurenich <gurenich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > wow, that's the good one too!! > nice. > > thank you! > > > > 2011/5/23 Uwe Küchler <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Laimutis, >> >> if you want to go for filesystem-mirroring solutions to implement HA, >> you might have a look at Linux's drbd. See: http://www.drbd.org/ >> >> A large European hosting provider uses Linux and drbd to provide a >> low-cost (yet robust) HA solution to their customers. >> >> Cheers, >> Uwe >> >> >> On 23.05.2011 10:25, Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx wrote: >> >> Jorgensen, Finn >> >> You can do what everybody did before DG was available (i.e Oracle 7 & >> 8) : >> > write your own set of scripts that ships archivelogs to the standby >> server >> > where you have a database in mount mode and another script that looks >> for >> > archived logs to arrive and then performs recovery. >> > >> ... >> > Does there exist some pure man's file system metro-mirroring solutions? >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > -- Cheers, -- Mark Brinsmead Senior DBA, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs