Andrew, Thanks for that. If I understand that note correctly, it only talks about the ability to see the backups taken from a standby in the primary location. Not the ability to take backups in the first place, or the ability to restore without catalog? It includes the advise in case of a restore to copy backups to the primary location and catalog them, which is exactly what we do when restoring a "lost" database without catalog connection. Also it becomes clear that this has nothing to do with Seth's problem earlier.. false alarm.. Cheers, Tony On 03/12/14 23:51, Andrew Kerber wrote:
Metalink note 1070039.1. Needed for 11.1 and above. Sent from my iPad On Dec 3, 2014, at 1:16 AM, De DBA <dedba@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dedba@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:Andrew, I'm almost sure I have restored databases without a catalog from a standby backup. Can you point us to the actual quote? Perhaps this has bearings on the problem that Seth had with cloning the database from a standby backup some weeks ago, not sure how that ended. I may have missed the solution.. Cheers, Tony On 03/12/14 13:55, Andrew Kerber wrote:According to oracle doc if you want to use a backup of the standby to restore primary you have to use a recovery catalog. Not sure why. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 2, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Fred Habash <fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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