Jay, I was under the impression that the standby would need them once it became the primary. Since they switch roles, doesn't the new primary (old standby) use online logs and sync them to the standby logs on the new standby (old primary) once it's back online? On 4/5/06, JayMiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <JayMiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Um, a physical standby doesn't have online redo logs. > > If you drop the log on production then that will be carried over to the > standby. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l