I wondered about that, but none of the drives are anywhere near full (sorry, should have said that before). I don't remember exactly where I sent the archivelogs to, I will have to dig a bit deeper on that. janine On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Jeremiah Wilton wrote: > Your log_archive_dest_n is full, or the archiver is not working for some > other reason. Everything will work again when you clear space for the > archivelogs. > > Regards, > Jeremiah Wilton > Blue Gecko, Inc. > > On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Janine Sisk wrote: > >> I've now tried ending the backup on each tablespace manually and they all >> hang, so clearly something is holding up the show. I looked at waits but I >> don't see anything directly about control files - a little Googling tells >> me that the log file switch errors probably mean my redo log is too small, >> but no indication that that would cause this problem. Am I missing >> something? >> >> SQL> select sid, event, seconds_in_wait from v$session_wait; >> >> SID EVENT >> ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> SECONDS_IN_WAIT >> --------------- >> 29 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 1198 >> >> 30 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 1198 >> >> 33 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 153 >> >> 38 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 153 >> >> 42 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 1198 >> >> 48 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 153 >> >> 51 log file switch (archiving needed) >> 253 --- Janine Sisk President/CEO of furfly, LLC 503-693-6407