ORACLE RMAN and Data Guard Lag Times - During Primary Backups
Environment: Oracle 12C (12.1.0.2) - 2 node RAC, Oracle Linux 7.4; Standby (Active DG) Oracle 12C (12.1.0.2), Oracle Linux 7.4
Bigfile table spaces; Blocksizes: data-16K, indexes 32K
Largest datafiles: 1 at 198GB, 1 at 373GB - the rest are less than 25GB
RMAN schedule: Level 0 weekly; level 1 other days; archive logs hourly (no issues)
Backups: 16 per set - uncompressed.
Backup Media: NetBackup
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Scenario:
When backups are running (evening/overnight schedule) the ADG lag time alerts are being issued.
Lag time can be from 3 to 5 minutes. The rest of the day it is sub-second. This has also resulted in
the ADG database to "crash" with an indication that the time to update the database results in ASMB