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.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> > >