Hmmm, no one answered this? You need to turn on automatic archiving. Do this at the system level by the following SQL command while logged in as SYSDBA: SQL> alter system archive log start; Then change it permanently via the following command: SQL> alter system set log_archive_start=true scope=spfile; HTH Jared On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:59:37 +0100, Steven Hovington <steven.hovington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > We're having a problem with a customer's database in Oracle 10g. It has > archive logging switched on, and the server also has Backup Exec running > with the module which backs up the Oracle database. > > Oracle is coming up with a DOS window with the following message: > live; ARC1: Beginning to archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 791 > Press ENTER to acknowledge message > live; ARC1: Creationg local archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: > 'd:\oracle\....' (etc) > Press ENTER to acknowledge message > live; ARC1: Closing local archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: > 'd:\oracle\....' (etc) > Press ENTER to acknowledge message > live; ARC1: Completed archiving log 1 thread 1 sequence 791 > Press ENTER to acknowledge message > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l