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standby/dataguard changing primary database

Hi,

we've got some new SAN-disks that's going to replace the internal db-disks on one of our servers. I have the old /disk0[1-6], the new disks are mounted as /newdisk0[1-6]. To move the database, I was thinking of shutdown the database, move/copy the files from /disk0[1-6] to /newdisk[1-6], unmount the disks and remount /newdisk0[1-6] as /disk0[1-6] and then just start the database again. One problem of this operation is that it takes approximately 7 hours.

This database has a standby database as security. To reduce the downtime by using os-command to move/copy the database, I was thinking of making a second standby database on the /newdisk0[1-6].  But when I do and make this new standby database as a primary database. The original standby database says this when I do a logswitch on the new primary:

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