I am thinking I could poll v$archived_log every X minutes then based on finding a new record I could trigger a mail to my backup server. My backup server could have a crontab that looks for these mails periodically then when it finds it backs up the archive destination and copies over the files. I am thinking it might be better to use the optional archive destination and through SQL*Net write to the box most likely to be recovered to.=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:01 AM To: rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: backup up archivelogs We have redo members mirrored on multiple file systems. We write the redos to an archive log. We backup the database in full along with archivelogs each night. The problem is that if the entire box goes down or we loose the RAID for archives we would only be able to restore/recover to the previous night. I am considering backing up archivelogs to tape immediately as they are filled up. =3D20 Anyone doing this and their thoughts on gotchas/caveats/best practices? Thanks, Paula -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 32659490) is spam: Spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Ds&i=3D32659490&m=3Dec1a= 9fc6e e89 Not spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Dn&i=3D32659490&m=3Dec1a= 9fc6e e89 Forget vote: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Df&i=3D32659490&m=3Dec1a= 9fc6e e89 ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l