I intend to send redo logs to our contingency site by setting it up as a Standby Server. I have investigated how this is done and we wanted to begin testing, but I noticed in our 'init.ora' file we needed to change the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST and LOG_ARCHIVE_DUPLEX_DEST parameters to LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 and LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2 so that we can use the 'location=x' (used for archive logs) and 'service=y' (used for Standby Server) parameters.

However, when I attempted to change to these parameters I received an error message on startup which stated that it could not reconcile the archive log destinations. When on an Oracle course I asked this question and the lecturer suggested it may be the COMPATIBILITY parameter needed to be set to 8.1.7 (the version of Oracle we are using). Unfortunately , this had no effect. Any ideas? It MUST be possible to set LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_x instead of using the old way without having to be in managed standby mode...