Message ARC0: Failed to archive log

Sun Solaris 5.8
Oracle Release 8.1.7.2.0

List:
We have a small but critical database that gets bursts of activity. If left to their own devices, the 50meg redo logs sometimes switch a few per hour; sometimes do not switch for several hours.

We're manually populating a standby database, so we're forcing a switch
(alter system archive log current) with a cron job every 30 minutes.

Every time a manual log switch occurs, we see this message in the alert log:

        ARC0: Failed to archive log# 2 seq# 854 However, the switch always completes a few tenths of a second later.

Would this be considered normal activity? Seems odd to see a message like this in the alert, but since we see a successful switch so quickly, I'm thinking maybe it's ok.

Thanks for any advice.

Barb

Mon Jun 24 15:55:01 2002
ARCH: Beginning to archive log# 1 seq# 841 Mon Jun 24 15:55:01 2002
ARC0: Beginning to archive log# 1 seq# 841 ARC0: Failed to archive log# 1 seq# 841
Mon Jun 24 15:55:07 2002
ARCH: Completed archiving log# 1 seq# 841 Mon Jun 24 16:55:01 2002
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 843   

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