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What is advantage of having disk shadowing / mirroring

  
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October 08, 2005 06:31:18   #1  
balu        

RE: What is advantage of having disk shadowing / mirro...
instead of taking seperate backups mirroring always helps taking backup simultanuesy.
 
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June 24, 2008 10:22:13   #2  
prashatt Member Since: April 2006   Contribution: 4    

RE: What is advantage of having disk shadowing / mirroring
Disk shadowing or mirroring is done either using a software or a hardware utility called RAID.  Disk shadowing enables another disk to take-over from a failed hard disk avoiding any downtimes. Generally Hardware fial-overs are enabled on all servers.
 
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Latest Answer : Multiplexing Redo log file called Mirroing. ( Keeping multiple copies in different disks) ...

Latest Answer : Disk shadowing or mirroring is done either using a software or a hardware utility called RAID.  Disk shadowing enables another disk to take-over from a failed hard disk avoiding any downtimes. Generally Hardware fial-overs are enabled on all servers. ...

It  is  possible  to  use  raw  devices  as data files and what is the advantages over file. system files ?
 Yes. The advantages over file system files. I/O  will  be  improved  because  Oracle  is  bye-passing the kernnel which writing into disk.Disk Corruption 

 Process of having a copy of redo log files is called mirroring. This  can be achieved by creating group of log files together, so that LGWR will  automatically  writes  them 

 Shadow  set of disks save as a backup in the event of disk failure. In most Operating  System if any disk failure occurs it automatically switchover to place of failed disk. Improved 

Latest Answer : RAM means Random access memory, which is used as a temporary memory space to load Operating system kernel, driver modules and services needed on the system. Whenever you switch off the system all the RAM memory contents are lost. Hard disks are for permanent ...


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