Problem with 10G Physical Standby Database (archive gap). HELP :-)

I'm having some isses with a 10G physical standby database and an archive gap. The standby instance does not use dataguard because of bandwidth limitations so instead I periodically copy over and manually register any archive logs from the primary instance i.e. alter database register physical logfile xxxxx. All of the logs are being reported as successfully registered.

I created the standby instance a few weeks ago and all was going well until last weekend. I have a daily monitoring script that runs after the logs have been copied over and registered which shows the current log sequence on both primary/standby instances and checks if there is an archive gap. The entries below was the last log before things started to go wrong.

Standby Current Log Sequence (DR) : 		 14383
Primary Current Log Sequence (PROD) : 		 14383

Then an archive gap appeared

Standby Current Log Sequence (DR) : 		 14531
Primary Current Log Sequence (PROD) : 		 14531

Archive Gap

   THREAD# LOW_SEQUENCE#
HIGH_SEQUENCE#
---------- -------------

         1 13310 13411

The strange thing is the range of logs in the gap were lower than the previous day's email that indicated that the current log was 14383 and there was no gap. The missing archive logs have now been purged on both instances although I may be able to restore from from tape.

NB: Just checked todays logs and now the gap stands at THREAD# LOW_SEQUENCE#
HIGH_SEQUENCE#
---------- -------------

         1 13310 13535

This is the first time I've setup a physical standby and most documentation assumes I would be using Dataguard. I'd appreciate a few pointers on what I may have done wrong as I thought once a logfile had been registered then the database would be updated.

Thanks in advance
John Received on Tue Feb 02 2010 - 05:28:04 CST