Syed, Please provide more detail on this comment. What capabilities are disabled by not having a catalog in place? *"If you are planning to offload RMAN backups to your DR databases, then, you must use the catalog"* Seth Miller On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Syed Jaffar Hussain < sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Walid, > > If you are planning to offload RMAN backups to your DR databases, then, > you must use the catalog, otherwise, need not to worry. > Just a quick question on restore. If you want to restore a database to a > month back date, how are you going to do it? > > Regards, > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:24 AM, walid kaakati < > dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> we are configuring a physical standby database without a recover catalog >> database, is this a correct configuration regarding RMAN and recovery >> senarios ? , backups are taken on Primay and standby used only for failover. >> >> Best wishes to all of you. >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > Syed Jaffar Hussain > Oracle ACE Director > <http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=19297:4:4640302666204919::NO:4:P4_ID:186> > Oracle Certified Master (10g) > <http://education.oracle.com/education/otn/shussain.html> > Lead-author Expert Oracle RAC 12c <http://www.apress.com/9781430250449> > Co-author Oracle 11gR1/R2 RAC Essentials <http://link.packtpub.com/yNZicz> > > *Oracle Magazine DBA of year (2011)* > OCP 8i/9i/10g/11g DBA, RAC Certified Expert, ITIL V3 foundation certified > Charity : www.sajcharity.org > I blog at : http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ > LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/sjaffarhussain > Follow me on twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/sjaffarhussain > -------------------- > "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." >