1000% sure... I did this again just to be sure. Roman Podshivalov <roman.podshivalov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Kathy, Are you 100% sure you've generated and transferred new copy of standby control file(s) ? And restarted standby instance after you did that ? --romas On 2/25/08, kathy duret <katpopins21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Yes I ended the backup mode after the file was completed. The current archives are all there. It is calling an archive from weeks ago which is not there. K "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx> wrote: In exactly the same spirit as Finn, did you ship the log you need after you ended backup mode, er, um, you don't actually write that you ended backup mode and physical recovery cannot complete until a log from after the end backup is applied. --------------------------------- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Finn Jorgensen Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:12 AM To: katpopins21@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Standby database looking for old archive kathy, You don't say this, so I'm going to ask. After you put the tablespaces in hot backup mode and copied them over, did you also copy over archive logs since putting the tablespaces in backup mode up until after you took them back out of backup mode and applied them to the standby? (I know it's obvious, but sometimes....) Finn <snip> --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.