Hi Chris, I am curios, what is the point of using the homegrown script if DG works so well? -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On 8/16/05, Marquez, Chris <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Peter, > > For one client I have built and run a "poor mans Standby database" > > <SIDE NOTE> > OK list, don't judge me. There is very good/real reason for this home > grown standby. > I have used and like Oracle Data Guard...it works well...I'm not against > DG, so please no flame. > <SIDE NOTE> > > Basically a shell script that does {RMAN restore database, then periodic > synchronization}; > - Get (more) arch logs from prod (scp) > ... > >