Backing up primary and physical standby
514056Aug 21 2007 — edited Nov 7 2007We have a DG setup with a single instance primary node and a physical standby db. They both use their own FRA's and their own disks. Nothing is shared. Also the datafiles use OMF on both the db's. My questions are
1. Can i register the primary with the rman catalog and still backup the standby?
2. Should i backup the archive logs on primary? If so what rman settings should i use on both for the archive logs?
3. We wanted to back up both the dbs as it will be faster to restore since we wont have to convert filenames (cause of OMF) when we have to resotore backup taken on primary to standby or vice versa.
Any advise related to this scenario is highly appreciated.
Thanks.