Sorry I didn't see the original thread on this one. I've messed with DG broker probably more than I ever wanted to. Even when oracle says to "rebuild standby" its not necessarily true, i've gotten around it multiple times between, bouncing standby, disable, re-enable configuration, manually catching up logs. Now if you did a "failover" and not a switchover, sometimes a reinstate will work depending on how far back, etc it is. joe From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx" <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 08/29/2011 09:31 AM Subject: RE: standby reinstate failed: other options Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx You're going to have to rebuild the standby from the primary. Which leads to the other side that having a system that fires on its own is normally not a good thing. Call me old fashion if you like, but I prefer to fail over my standby manually just because of this. Richard Goulet Senior Oracle DBA/Na Team Leader -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l