Hello, I am testing standby failover techniques, and would like to make sure that I am following the right steps while rebuilding the primary db. After the failover is done, the ex-primary db can no longer be used, and so to re-create it, I copy all datafiles, online and archived redo logs, create standby controlfiles, and first create it as a standby db. Then I perform a switchover, fom the new primary to the newly created standby db, revesring the roles, am I right? Thanks! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l