Steve, Those archivelog destinations are all mandatory, right? Non-mandatory destinations shouldn't really be counted on and may do more harm than good. Paul On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:38:47 -0400, Stephen Evans <evans036@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > we are a hospital & somes apps are so mission critical that patient care > is compromised for every minute of downtime we incur. oh. that sounds like a serious requirement which would likely be able to carry a budget to support it. > we are extensively using data guard right now. we have also achieved zero > data loss on the san (against a SINGLE point of failure) by using a > combination of dataguard and triplexing our active redos on two stroage > controllers (in different locations) and on local unix storage. We are > almost certain that we will always be able to obtain at least one copy of > the active redo if any part of the system goes belly-up (hence zero > dataloss once applied to our physical standby). > -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/