Hi Hemant, 12c has not only introduced Far Sync and real-time cascade, but also the ability to manage cascading and cascaded databases through the Data Guard Broker. in 11gR2, you can have a cascaded standby database, but you have to manage it without the broker. Moreover the only log transport mode available between the cascading and cascaded database is ARCH. Gavin Soorma has blogged about it one year ago, it is a good read: http://gavinsoorma.com/2013/05/11g-data-guard-cascading-standby-database/ Best regards -- Ludovico 2014-08-26 9:04 GMT+02:00 Chitale, Hemant K <Hemant-K.Chitale@xxxxxx>: > 12c has introduced Far Sync as a “product”. > > In 11gR2 (and 10g) we could implement Cascaded Standby. I am looking for > experiences / notes / case studies / gotchas with an 11gR2 architecture > that has > > (a) “Near” Standby in SYNC mode [preferably running only the > instance and processes without database files ?] > > (b) “Far” Standby in ASYNC mode [with the full database] > > Support Note 409013.1 has some information but not enough. I couldn’t > find a Cascaded Standby described in Larry Carpenter’s 11g DataGuard > Handbook (maybe I haven’t put in enough effort in the search). > > Hemant K Chitale > > > This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies > and notify the sender immediately. You may wish to refer to the > incorporation details of Standard Chartered PLC, Standard Chartered Bank > and their subsidiaries at https://www.sc.com/en/incorporation-details.html > . >