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. > > -- > Jeremiah Wilton > ORA-600 Consulting > Emergencies - Seminars - Hiring > http://www.ora-600.net > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l