CHAPTER 19RMAN and Real Application Clusters

While it is well beyond the scope of this book to guide you through the intricacies of Oracle Real Application Clusters, we can provide some guidance on preparing your RAC configuration for backup and recovery. As with Data Guard in Chapter 18, we assume that you have a working knowledge of RAC in Oracle Database 10g, and thus our brief discussion of RAC architecture is intended more as a reminder than as an education.

Throughout this chapter, we will use an example cluster database that has only two nodes: winrac1 and winrac2. These nodes share a disk array, which is configured with Oracle ASM as its volume manager. Each node has an instance: prod1 on winrac1, and prod2 on winrac2. While we will ...

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