another useful info: SQL> select count(*),applied from v$archived_log group by applied; COUNT(*) APPLIED ---------- --- 8895 NO so what GAP if no applied at all since it was restarted? what to do in this case? ----- Original Message ----- From: Niall Litchfield To: a.lia@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Remigiusz Sokolowski Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:46 AM Subject: Re: stand by DB stop recovery files Now I look a little closer it may just be that you haven't specified FAL so you'll have to do gap resolution manually anyway. On 27 Aug 2010 08:15, "Alessandro Lia" <a.lia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I put it in manage recovery. This is a message in alert log: Trying FAL server: Error fetching gap sequence, no FAL server specified Fri Aug 27 09:10:20 2010 Failed to request gap sequence. Thread #: 1, gap sequence: 131193-132589 All FAL server has been attempted. Any idea? Alessandro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Remigiusz Sokolowski" <remigiusz.sokolowski@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <a.lia@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 8:56 AM Subject: Re: stand by DB stop recovery files Alessandro Lia pisze: > > Dear all, > I have this situation: > for some reasons I needed to shutd...