http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=677155 check whether this can be of use.. thanks..subodh On 15 April 2011 23:01, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Platform: IBM zSeries > OS: Suse10 > DB: EE 10.2.0.4 (planning to go to 11g in 4-6 months) > > Three weeks ago I created a standby database using RMAN and setting > everything up manually. Had problems using EM so had to resort to the > manual method when Oracle support was unable to find an EM solution. All > went well, logs were shipping and applying when I turned on log apply at > night, backups were performing as they always had and life was good. I then > configured the standby in EM and set up the Data Guard configuration with > the primary/standby. Now when I turn on log apply the backups fail with > RMAN-20011. I have researched the error and tried to unregister/re-register > the database to no avail. Restoring isn't an option either for this 24x7 > OLTP. I have a ticket open with Oracle support but it's been 8 hours and > they have yet to even notify me that someone is working on it--it's a Sev 2 > right now. I did turn off log apply at 6:30am and at 7:30am an archive > backup kicked off and ran successfully. I find this behavior frustrating > and confusing. > > I have to turn off log apply during core business hours due to the > excessive paging on the zSeries but it seems to me that the backups should > work whether log apply is on or not. Has anyone ever seen this behavior? > I'm sure I did something wrong in my configuration but I can't seem to find > it. Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > -- > Sandy > Transzap, Inc. > -- ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ==============================