Duplex Archive Logs

I was wondering if anyone has worked with duplexed archive logs. In reading the documentation about the parameters it appears that you have to set two parameters in the init.ora. First, the log_archive_duplex_dest, I then left the log_archive_min_succed_dest set

to the default of '1'. After I recycled the database I forced a log switch and found the archive log was not written into the duplex location. I haven't done any further testing but after reading the documentation again it stated that if log_archive_min_succed_dest is set

to '1' then the write to log_archive_duplex_dest is a "best effort". I'm not sure what that means. Like I said I haven't had the chance to set the log_archive_min_succed_dest to '2'. But does "best effort" mean

if the server can write to log_arch_dest then if will not write to log_arch_duplex_dest? I guess that brings up another question. If I setup a duplex_dest and leave min_succed set to '1' - if the log_arch_dest fills up will the archive logs then switch over to duplex_dest with the database hanging? Received on Thu Sep 02 1999 - 00:17:52 CDT