Oracle Data Guard Primary Use Case

Azhagupandi Parthiban - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our company is fully into Oracle. So, we use most of the enterprise things in Oracle, and our core application is in Oracle only.

The data reduction and Active Data Guard, all the stuff that's happening, is in Oracle only. Maybe we have a reactivation program trying to move into other purpose-built data, but that's in an early stage.

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MK
Head of Networks and Communication section at Riyadh Municipality

I use Oracle Data Guard to keep a backup copy of my database for quick recovery in case of a disaster and offload some tasks to a separate copy of the database. It has evolved a lot in the last ten years and is now really good at both. It ensures that if something goes wrong with the main database, you can smoothly switch to a backup without much downtime, keeping things running smoothly.

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SM
Database administrator at SSnC

The product is used for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Federico Bonifazi - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Technical DBA Oracle at Geko s.r.l.

I have utilized it as a backup system, with the disaster recovery aspect coming into play only when there was an actual disaster on the primary side.

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AdnanKamarudin - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Engineer at Dagang NeXchange Berhad

Our current practice involves monitoring the continuous flow of data to ensure that the gap remains consistently at zero. If the gap increases, it is often due to issues such as a stalled work process or disruptions in the data shipping process. In such cases, our response has been to repeatedly restart the process to address the issue.

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SrikanthS - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Technical at Sify Technologies

We moved from on-premises to a private cloud.

Only our ERP admins use this solution, so it's about five people.

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AH
Database Administrator at ZTBL

We've implemented Oracle Data Guard for both types of databases within our private cloud environment, ensuring data protection and high availability.

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KD
Senior Database Administrator at Argo Group

The product is used for disaster recovery as well as being able to put in read only mode and run queries or reports on DR site. 

You can run reports or test scripts on standby and tune them without having to worry about affecting anything going on in productions. That way, you know exactly how the reports and queries will perform in production before installing it. 

You have the exact data and environment provided your standby is set up the same as your production database and server.  This also help gives you a better ROI on the DR site to.

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Oz Pozner - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Product - CloudHome at Bynet

We use it for application disaster recovery. It is deployed on-prem, and one side is our side, and the second side is Microsoft Azure.

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OM
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential

Data focus is the main issue. Most of the features of a new database still go to an Oracle administration section.

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AM
DBA Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle Data Guard is a critical part of our business applications. The solution helps protect our data from accidental or unauthorized changes.

The solution can be deployed on-prem and on the cloud.

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HO
Computer Engineer at Nestle

We have a couple of Oracle systems that are attached to different types of applications.
In terms of Data Guard, we use it for factory monitoring.

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PT
Deputy General Manager - Information Technology at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution to have the peer site and a copy of it available in our global data center.

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AA
Oracle DBA Section Head at a security firm with 11-50 employees

I use Oracle Data Guard as a DR (disaster recovery) solution. Usually, I use the free license Data Guard, which is called the physical Data Guard.

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RN
CEO at Tecnix Solutions

Oracle Data Guard ensures data protection and disaster recovery. The better way to configure Data Guard is by having an Oracle production database on one site as the primary database, and an Oracle standby database on another site. This solution provides high availability.

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UF
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

My primary use case is to cache our monthly data and ensure that same data is copied for DR (disaster recovery) side. This solution is deployed on-premises. 

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MG
Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We implemented Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery, even though one can't implement disaster recovery across multiple sites using stretch clusters, and implement a server pool at both sites. You have to build a dedicated server pool on each of the locations. 

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it_user1123491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Intersystem Manager at Interplast

We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery.

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AS
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

We have a primary database and a secondary database. Both databases are on different sites, which are geographically distant. One site is used as the primary site, and the other one is used as the secondary site. We have configured Oracle Data Guard to instantly replicate the data from one database to the other database on a different site. That's what we do with the Oracle Data Guard at this point. It's about business continuity.

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MS
Will only provide via email at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case of this solution is for data protection, disaster recovery, and it's used as a backup database to restore the primary databases.

It gives the client comfort in case of any incidents, disaster or any catastrophic situation because it maintains, manages, and monitors the database and keeps a backup.

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MS
Oracle DBA Customer Capacity Leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use of this solution is for the high availability. If the database or server crashes, the switches go over to the standby database becoming the primary database. We use Data Guard in order to have a high-availability solution and high-availability configuration in our data center.

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MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing

The primary use case of this solution is on disaster recovery. this software is reliable and is suited for long distances.

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