Re: Standby errors

Terry,

what's chances the your scrit copy the archive logs the main database to standby database on a same
moment when de database is saving the archive log file?

Adriano

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> Oracle 8.1.6 on Solaris 5.8.
>
> We have a read-only standby database for one of our production databases.
> Each night, the standby is shutdown and the previous days archive logs
from
> production are applied. Then the database is brought backup in read-only
> mode. To get the archive logs, a hot backup is done on the production
> database. As the last step is the hot backup, a log switch is done and
then
> the archive logs are ftp'd to the server where the standby is.
>
> After the hot backup completed yesterday, the log switch occurred, and the
> logs sent, but when an attempt was made to apply the archive logs we got
an
> error:
>
> ORA-00332: archived log is too small - may be incompletely archived
> ORA-00334: archived log: '/orabackup/archive/TBSPRD/arch1352.arc'
> ORA-332 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER
>
> In looking at the archive log, both on the production and standby servers,
> they are the same size - 16k (the block size for the db is 8k). The next
> log is 8k in size and then there is another that is 16k before we see any
> that are normal sized. These would have been the first logs _after_ the
hot
> backup the night before.
>
> In the alert log for the production db, it appears the log 1353 was
archived
> _before_ 1352.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior before? Does anybody have any idea why it
> happened in the first place? Is there something we can do to make sure it
> never happens again?
>
>
> P.S. We are upgrading to 9.2 this weekend, if that makes any difference.
>
>
> Terry Ball, DBA
> Birch Telecom
> Work: 816-300-1335
> FAX: 816-300-1800
>
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