Oracle Data Guard standby database backup and restore

Run offline backups of Oracle Data Guard standby database as you would backup an Oracle database. The configuration, commands, and options are the same.

The Oracle Data Guard setup is composed of a primary database and one or more standby databases. Access to the primary database is read/write, while the standby databases that are always synchronized to the primary database, have read-only access. This setup is used as a high-availability setup, in which any of the standby databases can take over the role of primary database. In a failover or switchover scenario, the standby database becomes the primary database.