Re: Backup flash recovery area on shared storage from alternate host?

  • From: Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:38:33 +0200

Jeremiah, I think you can start an auxulary instance on the standby
node just to backup your flash recovery area.

2005/10/26, Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Kanagaraj wrote:
>
> > If this is a SAN based FRA, can you not use a technology such as
> > ShadowImage (HDS) or BCV (EMC) to split the mirror and *mount* it (not
> > NFS) as a filesystem on another host that has access to the tape drives?
> > (any host is ok but you kill two birds with one stone if this is the
> > standby host) Note that the FRA by default is not only the backup area,
> > but has the archive logs, flashback logs, etc, so you cannot take it
> > offline. Offloading such work requires a *complete* detach - via a
> > mirror such as what I describe above...
>
> John,
>
> Thanks.  The FRA is in fact on storage that is mounted on the
> alternate host via NFS while simultaneously mounted on the primary.
>
> The problem is making RMAN read from the local NFS mount on the
> alternate host, rather than calling RMAN to start a server process on
> the primary, which is the default behavior when specifying the target.
>
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