Re: arch directory filled; restart ARCH process?

Not sure what OS you are on, but with VMS the process just continues automatically without any restarts. You just end up with a trc file and mutiple entries in the alert log.

Ernest Simard
System Analyst
Sonoma State Univ
707-664-3091

• Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Ocheltree" <ora_dba_at_hotmail.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:45 PM Subject: arch directory filled; restart ARCH process?

> Help. I have just started working with a database in archivelog mode. The
> process that writes our archived logs to tape failed yesterday and
> eventually the directory that holds the logs filled. The database did not
> crash though! (I thought that's how it worked?) The alert log has entries
> showing ARCH trying to write to the filled directory, and failing, but no
db
> crash. I have copied the archived files off for now and freed up space--is
> it safe to just restart the ARCH process? Once the process is restarted
will
> it continue to write to the file that it was archiving to when it failed?
Or
> will it write to a new file? Am I missing something crucial here?
> Thanks,
> Sandy
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