CHAPTER 20RMAN in Sync and Split Technology

The storage industry never sleeps. With every passing year, new hardware and software storage solutions pour down the pipeline, providing us with interesting new acronyms, tightly coupled buzzwords, and, occasionally, something that is very cool.

Sync and split technology is an example of an innovative (and challenging) solution for storage recovery. Although sync and split technology was available when Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery was published in 2002, it was not given coverage because it wasn’t widely adopted at that point. Since then, sync and split has become a widely used technology to provide immediate and very fast system recovery at the storage hardware level.

In this chapter, we will provide ...

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