You won't be able to apply the Primary's archive logs to a backup from the logical standby. So you won't be able to do a point in time recovery -- any point in time after the logical standby backup. On Aug 15, 2012 10:33 PM, "Bill Zakrzewski" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oracle: 11.2.0.3.0 > RH 5 > Oracle Data Guard with primary and logical standby on separate servers > > Previously our configuration was a primary database and a physical standby > on separate servers. Now we have converted the physical standby into a > logical standby. I was using the physical standby for backups (RMAN)...can > I use the logical standby for backups? Are there any considerations during > backup/recovery? If there are any good white papers can someone provide > the document id - I was searching metalink but couldn't find anything. > > Thanks in advance > Bill-- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l