Cascade Standbys...got it.....Appendix E of the 11.2 Dataguard doc. Thanks Craig, Job, Adam!!! From: craigihagan@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:craigihagan@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig Hagan Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 2:11 PM To: Grabowy, Chris Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Primary -> Standby -> Standby I believe it is called cascaded redo if you have foodb with a primary and a "regular" standby for production use, and an additional standby for other use, e.g. reporting, etc, you could have the production standby transmit logs to the reporting standby via a config roughly like: alter system set log_archive_config='DG_CONFIG=(foodb_b,foodb_a,foodb_c)'; alter system set log_archive_dest_3 = 'db_unique_name=foodb_c SERVICE="foodb_c.amazon" NET_TIMEOUT valid_for=(standby_logfile, standby_role) REOPEN` OPTIONAL'; alter system set log_archive_dest_state_3='enable'; (nb: i'm not checking for typos or exact syntax, verify! the key is the role standby_role vs. primary_role) -- craig On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Grabowy, Chris <chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx<mailto:chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: I thought I had read somewhere that a Primary database could feed its logs to a Standby database and then that Standby database could then feed those logs to another Standby. Is that true?? If so then is it a matter of setting another LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST on the standby? Looking for a clue, since I have none. Or I was dreaming about a new feature?? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- .- ... . -.-. .-. . - -- . ... ... .- --. . Craig I. Hagan hagan(at)cih.com<http://cih.com> nemo dat quod non habet - you cannot give what you do not have -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l