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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration : Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration : Beginner's Guide If you're an Oracle Database Administrator it's almost essential to know how to protect and preserve your data. This is the perfect primer to Data Guard that covers all the bases with a totally practical, user-friendly approach.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849687904
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring the Oracle Data Guard Physical Standby Database 3. Configuring Oracle Data Guard Logical Standby Database 4. Oracle Data Guard Broker 5. Data Guard Protection Modes 6. Data Guard Role Transitions 7. Active Data Guard, Snapshot Standby, and Advanced Techniques 8. Integrating Data Guard with the Complete Oracle Environment 9. Data Guard Configuration Patching 10. Common Data Guard Issues 11. Data Guard Best Practices Index

Time for action – starting the physical standby instance and making it ready for the RMAN duplicate


Execute the following steps to start a database instance on the standby server and make it ready for the RMAN duplicate operation.

  1. Create a service in Windows.

    If you are creating a Data Guard configuration in Windows, you must create a service using the oradim utility as follows:

    oradim -NEW -SID <sid> -STARTMODE manual -PFILE C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\admin\<sid>\pfile\init.ora
    

    You can skip this step if the environment is not Windows.

  2. Set the standby database initialization parameters:

    Copy the PFILE from the primary system to the standby system under the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory with the proper name (initINDIA.ora in our example). Make changes as needed if the control file locations will be different on the standby database and then change locations. The diagnostic destination and memory must be checked. You also need to set the standby-related parameters we've just covered...

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