You can do that with a primary database: alter database recover automatic from 'location'; That's not available with standby recovery since you cannot specify a location. David Fitzjarrell Principal author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide" On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 7:57 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Its age I guess I cant remember how to specify an alternate location for incoming archived logs when rolling forward a database manually. I really have looked in the doc and Googled but to no avail! Its something like recover standby database from location; Help! Please! Oracle 11 Redhat 3 -- Howard A. Latham -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l