Ron Rogers wrote: > List, > I have been looking into using Data Guard as a method of providing HA is = > the company decides it is an option they want to invest in. > The question that I have are. > 1. Using a physical database as the Data Guard, does the second server = > have to have the exact same physical equipment for the disks or does it = > just have to be the same directory structure? [...] Doesn't even require that, since a physical standby can be on the same machine as the primary if desired. Check the Data Guard manual for the section "Standby Database Directory Structure Considerations" and the DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT and LOG_FILE_NAME_CONVERT parameters. -- Mark Bole http://www.bincomputing.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l