Oracle 11G RH LINUX I have logged an SR but so far nothing!( 20 hours) I have a primary and standby db Not using Dataguard Broker. I want to have two standbys on the standby box but I don't want to ship two copies of archived logs So I tried using log_archive_dest_3=dependency=log_achive_dest_2 The Primary stops archiving and stalls when the 3rd and last online redo log is full. The Dread message All logs need archiving appear in the alert log. The Database seems to start writing all three archived logs and hangs while it does it. If I shutdown the Standbys the Database appears to free up. This is a Production DB so I cant play around very much with Parms and am thinking of manually maintaining the second Standby. Any suggestions Folks? LGR Processes =10 -- Howard A. Latham Sent from my Nokia N97