On production, please run the following from sqlplus: select dest_id, status, error from v$archive_dest; Let's make sure production is trying to send the logs, and if so, is it able to send the logs to the standby. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of nilesh kumar Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:17 PM To: ORACLE-L Subject: archive logs are not getting transferred to standby Hello All, Good Afternoon!! Hope Every one is doing great and preparing for the Weekend!! I have a issue with the dataguard, The logs are not gettitng transferred in the Standby database from the primary. The screen shot of STDBY database is as below. SQL> show parameter log_archive_dest_1; NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ log_archive_dest_1 string LOCATION=D:\oracle\product\10. 2.0\flash_recovery_area\stdby\ ARCHIVELOG VALID_FOR=(ALL_LOGF ILES,ALL_ROLES) DB_UNIQUE_NAME =STDBY log_archive_dest_10 string SQL> show parameter log_archive_dest_2; NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ log_archive_dest_2 string SERVICE=orcl1 LGWR ASYNC VALID _FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILES,PRIMARY_ ROLE) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=orcl1 ============================================================================= how do I solve this problem ? I am using this for the first time. Even after doing the "alter system switch logfile"; I do not see any logs that are transferred to the standby. How should i solve this problem... -- Thanks Nilesh Soni Oracle DBA--OCA 10g Oracle is not a magic..it takes years of experiance :-) 9860584034