All,

I would love to hear opinions and experiences from current User's of
Aivant's DBShadow product to create and manage Oracle standby
databases.

Use of this product in a large SAP environment would be a plus.

Suggestions for alternative products is also greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Charles

Charles,

we've been using DBShadow for almost three years now (non-SAP, 300GB,
18.000 users).

The were few situations (media failures and logical corruptions) in
which DBShadow helped us to avoid a full database restore.

Also in common planned change situation (appl. release upgrade)
DBShadow has proven to be a valuable fall-back strategy.

Compared to other products like Oracles Dataguard to me DBShadow seems
to be much more simplier to setup, maintain and operate.

I don't want to miss it ...

Kind regards,
Dirk

cdavis10717@comcast.net (Charles) wrote in message news:<83dbb3cd.0401291232.5fb0b2ef@posting.google. com>...
> All,
>
> I would love to hear opinions and experiences from current User's of
> Aivant's DBShadow product to create and manage Oracle standby
> databases.
>
> Use of this product in a large SAP environment would be a plus.
>
> Suggestions for alternative products is also greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Charles

cdavis10717@comcast.net (Charles) wrote in message news:<83dbb3cd.0401291232.5fb0b2ef@posting.google. com>...
> All,
>
> I would love to hear opinions and experiences from current User's of
> Aivant's DBShadow product to create and manage Oracle standby
> databases.
>
> Use of this product in a large SAP environment would be a plus.
>
> Suggestions for alternative products is also greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Charles

Feb 13th 2004
It is installed in mission critical environment several times. They
have customers in many OLTP-applications like SAP R/3 and individual
software. Is a 250 Gigabyte installation large enough ? Alternativeliy
is - as far as I know - only data guard from oracle. IBM has a shadow
add on with its db2. But this is not really comparable, they do more
"cloning" or "doubling" of transactions.

I am administrator and project manager, greetings, nico.

cdavis10717@comcast.net (Charles) wrote in message news:<83dbb3cd.0401291232.5fb0b2ef@posting.google. com>...
> All,
>
> I would love to hear opinions and experiences from current User's of
> Aivant's DBShadow product to create and manage Oracle standby
> databases.
>
> Use of this product in a large SAP environment would be a plus.
>
> Suggestions for alternative products is also greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Charles

Hello,

I have been using DB-Shadow for the last year and it is one of the
most reliable, performing, easy to use, etc, life saving softwares I
have ever used.

I use it in a SAP environment on Windows NT with an Oracle DB 8.1.7 of
over 600GB. We have tested the standby environment on 3 occasions and
we were able to switch to the DB-Shadow server running SAP in less
than 45 minutes.

We also used it in a real life situation, when our production Oracle
migration did not work the first time, I restored from the DB-Shadow
server in 5 hours, something that with tape restore would have taken
over 20 hours.

A special thank you to their team.

Marc B.