My understanding from talking to the MAA team at OOW 2010 was that there was an issue identifying the thread from which to receive redo when the standby fell behind (for whatever reason) Having said that I have a perfectly working cascaded standby where the primary is a 8 node RAC ==> dataguarding to a standby on 8 nodes (with one node applying) ==> cascading to the second standby During the build I had an issue with read only tablespaces but we sorted this out by copying from the primary Fairlie Rego Senior Oracle Consultant http://el-caro.blogspot.com/ M: +61 402 792 405 ________________________________ From: Kumar Madduri <ksmadduri@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle Freelists <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue, 19 October, 2010 2:06:45 PM Subject: Reason for not supporting cascading standby when primary is rac Hello: Is there any reason why Oracle does not support cascading standby databases when primary is rac? It would make more sense when you have multiple instances (and multiple threads of redo) to offload the work to another standby to propagate the redo. Thank you Kumar