Why not set up an AT job to copy from your local drive to the network drive?
At the end of the day, when you shutdown the db, you can delete all logs
from the local drive, so it doesn't take too much space.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
danyal_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <7ku5pg$gvq$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>
>
>Quick question:
>
>What happens when your network is unavailable? If Oracle can't write
>an archive log, it stops. Bad solution in my mind.
>
>How about archiving to tape or talking management into buying a second
>drive. Disk space is cheap these days. In your current configuration,
>you have to be running into a hell of a lot of disk contention as
>everything resides on the same physical disk--redo logs, archive logs,
>indexes, tables, temp, etc.
>
>In short, I wouldn't advise archiving to a network drive in the first
>place.
>
>HTH,
>
>Denzil
>
>
>In article <7ktla8$9up$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> hogana_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am running 7.3.3 on NT4 with one physical disk and daily hot
>> backups. To maximise recoverability in the event of a disk failure, I
>am
>> trying to set the archivelog destination to a network drive. This is
>> causing an "end-of-file on communication channel" error when I
>startup.
>>
>> Has anyone come across this and found a solution.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 17:23:43 CDT
