Hi: I did setup physical standby db setup in 10g,Windows platform. Everything works fine. But the archive log destination for STANDBY database goes to wrong place(db_recovery_file_dest) instead of log_archive_dest_1. I want to setup cascade standby database. Is it a bug or I am missing somet= hing? Thanks in advance -Sami SQL> archive log list Database log mode Archive Mode Automatic archival Enabled Archive destination =20 Z:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\database\archive\hbny Oldest online log sequence 65 Next log sequence to archive 0 Current log sequence 70 SQL> SQL> show parameter instance_name NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- --------------------------= ---- instance_name string hbny db_recovery_file_dest string =20 Z:\oracle\product\10.1.0\flash_recovery_area =20 _recovery_area db_recovery_file_dest_size big integer 2G recovery_parallelism integer 0 log_archive_dest string log_archive_dest_1 string =20 LOCATION=3DZ:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\database\archive\hbny VALID_FOR=3D(ALL_LOGFILES,ALL_ROLES) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=3Dhbny log_archive_dest_2 string SERVICE=3Dhsbc VALID_FOR=3D(ONLINE_LOGFILES,PRIMARY_ROLE) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=3Dhsbc log_archive_dest_state_1 string enable log_archive_dest_state_2 string enable -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l