Scott, Even i feel this document is simple enough, All the steps in this mentioned are mandatory. You got chance to look at this? *Step by Step Guide on Creating Physical Standby Using RMAN DUPLICATE...FROM ACTIVE DATABASE [ID 1075908.1]* You can also refer tahiti documents to configure, have step by step oriented documents here to configure phyiscal standby database. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10700/create_ps.htm Of course from many blogs you can find it. Hope this helps. Thanks & Regards, Nassyam Basha. www.oracle-ckpt.com On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Scott Canaan <srcdco@xxxxxxx> wrote: > rk. It seems simple enough, but I'm doing something very basic, wrong. I > can't figure it out and Oracle support has been useless. Does anyone have > a document on how to configure Data Guard, step-by-step? I'm looking for > something very basic, none of the fancy options. I'd just like to see it > work. > We are Oracle 11.2.0.3 on Red Hat 6. I have a sandbox that I can play > in. I can delete both of the databases and start over. > Thank you, > > Scott Canaan '88 (srcdco@xxxxxxx<mailto:Scott.Canaan@xxxxxxx>) > (585) 475-7886 - work > "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into > it." - Tom Lehrer. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Thanks & Regards, Nassyam Basha. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l