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Mirroring redo log files
In my database I have three redo log groups 1,2,3, and each log group contains one member like d:oracleoradatatestredo01.log,...
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d:oracleoradatatestredo02.log, d:oracleoradatatestredo03.log, respectively. I want to multiplex or mirror these log files to the c: drive. How to do this? My operating system is Windows NT.
The OS does not make a difference in this case except for specifying directory names. In Oracle-speak, mirroring this log files (which is an extremely good idea to do!) is done by adding *members* to the redo log *groups*. This can be done with the following command:
ALTER DATABASE ADD LOGFILE MEMBER 'directory/filename' TO GROUP x;
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