Put the job in the cron on all three servers. Comment it out on the servers where it's only going to run if the preferred server is unavailable. It's up to you to uncomment it out if you want it to run on a non-preferred server, and I'd probably be focusing on getting my dead RAC node back up and running. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Don Morse <dmorse2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To list:: I'm configuring rman backups for our first RAC deployment, ... Now > that we have a 3-node cluster, I'm trying to decide how to schedule backups; > one of the nodes will be the preferred server, others will run the rman job > only if the others are not available. I have seen reference to using > dbms_scheduler, but this would not work if we wanted to run an offline > backup. I would appreciate any ideas. > Thanks! > > Don Morse > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Adam Musch ahmusch@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l