Hello: I have set up a standby database under oracle 10.2.0.1 and everything looked great except for a minor detail - the archived logfiles do not get copied to the standby server. When I look at the v$archive_dest view I see ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified 03-18-2009 10:47:32 pcrp01d for dest_ID which correspond to my standby. I have checked the tnsnames.ora on the primary side and it looks OK. tnsping finds the standby; I can ping the host. I have tried bouncing the listener on the standby side; bouncind the standby DB itself as well as primary db, but this error keep reapearring after 5 min pause. If tnsnames.ora is OK, what else could be the issue? thank you Gene Gurevich Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l