Re: oracle80.exe Error: Cannot Allocate Log

Dino Hsu wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> We have an oracle80.exe error on the server as follows:
> Warning - The following error occured during ORACLE redo log archival:
> ORACLE Instance orc1 - Can not allocate log, archival required
> Press <ENTER> to acknowledge message.
>
> Do you know what it means and how to deal with it? Thanks.
> Platform: Oracle 8.0.5 on Windows NT4.
>
> Dino

Most probably automatic archiving is not on (check log_archive_start), or you have run out of disk space on your archive destination...

HTH

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