Re: does FRA is really needed ?
- From: "Charles Schultz" <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:53:10 -0600
I wanted to apologize for confusing the issue. For some reason I had ASM on
the brain, even though there was no mention of it in the OP's note (not even
RAC for that matter). I am sure some of you were thinking after reading my
note "What was he smoking?" I assure you, I am thinking the same thing.
On Dec 16, 2007 7:01 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grzegorz,
>
> Good question, that is something we have been wondering about as well.
> There are some other questions that go along with this, I believe.
>
> For instance, are you using a RAC? Seems like an obvious one, but I did
> not want to assume (that BAAG party as got to be for something, right?).
> Second question, do you currently or plan to use Flashback database? From my
> limited experience, these seem to be the key things that "require" an FRA.
>
> To answer you question, dataguard, in and of itself, does not need FRA
> whatsoever. In fact, DG and RAC are two completely separate technologies,
> used to achieve a single goal (Maximum Availability).
>
> In our RAC environment, we do not currently have need of an FRA; we
> implemented the Flashback Recovery Area as part of the "Best Practices", but
> for us, it is a real pain dealing with archive log gaps (both for physical
> standbys and streams). And we have chosen, at this point, to avoid the
> dataguard broker as well. These are choices we have made for our particular
> environment and may not be well suited for everyone. We are still learning
> things about RAC, FRA and the broker, so there is still a chance our
> environment may change a little.
>
> If anyone finds holes this, please let me know. =)
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2007 5:53 AM, Grzegorz Goryszewski <grzegorzof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > can You please clarify one thing for me.
> > I'm wonder if FRA is really neccessary for Data Guard solution ?
> > I'm preparing for DG configuration with physical standby, do I need FRA
> > for
> > failover switch from primary to standby and back ?
> > Oracle 10.2.0.2 .
> > Regards.
> > Grzegorz
> >
> >
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