folks,

I don't know why there is 'Failed' message in my alert file below on primary site, but the alert file on standby site is OK and the managed rocovery worked well. You can find the archived log both located on directory of primary site and standby site. If you could explain it for me, I'd appreciate it.

a1netALRT.log locatd on pirimary site
Mon May 21 11:11:58 2001
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 1401
Current log# 3 seq# 1401 mem# 0: E:\ORACLE\ORADATA\A1NET\REDO03.LOG
Mon May 21 11:11:58 2001
ARCH: Beginning to archive log# 2 seq# 1400
Mon May 21 11:11:58 2001
ARC0: Beginning to archive log# 2 seq# 1400
ARC0: Failed to archive log# 2 seq# 1400
Mon May 21 11:11:59 2001
ARCH: Completed archiving log# 2 seq# 1400

archive parameters in the initialation file: init.ora
log_archive_dest string
log_archive_dest_1 location=E:\Oracle\A1NET\archive
log_archive_dest_2 SERVICE=STBY MANDATORY REOPEN=60

a1netALRT.log locatd on standby site
Media Recovery Waiting for thread 1 seq# 1400
Mon May 21 11:11:35 2001
Media Recovery Log E:\ORACLE\ORADATA\A1NET\ARCHIVE\STBYT001S01400.ARC
Media Recovery Waiting for thread 1 seq# 1401

TIA

mike