That's a solution. One possible problem we have seen is,sometime when remote server hangs/disk problem, archive process/lgwr can also hang. This is very bad for primary database. Another advantage of using rsync is the -z flag, which helps great if you have to manage multiple data center. Transferring a lot of archive logs with -z is really useful. On 10/5/05, David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > why not just have a secondary archive_lost_dest which goes to the remote > server. Will get round the problems there and you can be sure its actually > there then -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org <http://www.cnoug.org>