Re: putting standby into a backup mode

  • From: Don Seiler <don@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:46:01 -0500

You can use RMAN to take backups from a standby no problem, this is
well documented.  If you want to take a user-managed backup then
you'll want to cancel recovery first and then copy the datafiles and
arch logs (or take snapshots).

Don.

On 8/19/09, Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Is it possible to put a standby database in a backup mode?
>
> The question is weather a hot backup of standby database can be done while
> managed recovery is active.
>
> The first idea is to put primary standby into backup mode so that redo logs
> contain extra data.
> But my understanding is that standby datafiles headers need to be freezed
> as well. While recovery is active this is not the case, is it ?
>
> All in all the answer seems to be NO.
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