I don't quite agree with "you have to keep monitoring the system all the time". Monitoring is just part of any Oracle database or system. You implement monitoring of your databases with Cloud Control and that automatically includes Data Guard monitoring. If you define your…

Instead of using a backup to restore the standby database I suggest to use the "duplicate from active database" option. You can define the number of channels to be used and therefore limit the bandwidth used, reducing the risk of having too much network resources used during…