hi,
I have two fresh server which we are planning to have one as primary database and other secondary database .We want to restore the secondary database by using primary DB archive logs and keep the secondary db in read only mode and switch over manually when primary is down.As i am new to this field my terminologies are like layman .
I am using RHEL 5.5 as OS and Oracle version is 11G R2
Regards,
GSK
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/dataguardoverview-083155.html
The online docs for it are at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25608/toc.htm
There is a ton of information out there once you start searching around for it.