I dont think you can stop the archivelog since the nature of Dataguard is that logs/redo is shipped from primary. you can write a cront job that does delete archivelog all at certain intervals delete archivelog all ; ________________________________ From: Patrick Elliott <elliotp1@xxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 8:35:14 AM Subject: Dataguard Archive Logs I have a physical dataguard database on a development system in noarchivelog mode. The archive log directory keeps filling up. Since it is development, I do not need to keep the archive logs. They are already backed up on the production database. How do I get the dataguard database to stop archiving? Patrick Elliott "You don't truly fail until you quit."