It sounds like a one-off situation. Maybe that client had standby file management set to manual. I have never run into this problem and have set up this scenario many times. I'm a big advocate of the catalog but it is not necessary for offloading backups to a standby. Seth Miller On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Syed Jaffar Hussain < sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Seth, > > One of our clients encountered a wired issue where backups on standby > failing whenever a new datafile is being added to the primary database. > Oracle suggested to resync the catalog just before the backups. Therefore, > this assumes that catalog is required. > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> 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." >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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." >