Hey Lisa,

Is the value of log_archive_min_succeed_dest > 1?

Rich

p.s.  I guess they really are Bloody Vikings.  Hey, there's always next
year... :)


Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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Hi all - 
8.1.7.2, Windows 2000 sp 2 
I'm working on my backupexec implementation.  For some odd reason the backup
job that copies the arclogs to tape and deletes them off the disk (what BE
calls an 'archive' job) wants to delete the directory too.  Sometimes the
directory is deleted, and sometimes it isn't.  
So I whip together a perl script to fire after the backup to check for the
arc directory and recreate it if it isn't there. 
Well, I expected Oracle to crash if it couldn't find the arc directory.
Instead it wrote to the directory where the arc directory used to reside
with a different name.  
Maybe it's platform specific, but doesn't this seem odd?  I would rather
have my db crash if the directory doesn't exist.  My backups would be all
hosed because the arclogs wouldn't end up being written to tape properly.
In fact I'm betting that BE will err out when looking for that directory.  
Here's what I see in v$archived_log.  693 and 694 are when the directory
still existed.  695+ are after the directory got deleted.  Anyone seen this
before?
       693  480186148 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARC\RMANTST_00428.ARC   
       694  480186151 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARC\RMANTST_00429.ARC   
       695  480268708 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00430.ARC    
       696  480268709 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00431.ARC    
       697  480268711 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00432.ARC    
       698  480268715 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00433.ARC    
       699  480268718 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00434.ARC    


SQL> select value from v$parameter 
  2  where name = 'log_archive_dest'; 
VALUE 
--------------------------------------------- 
D:\oracle\oradata\rmantst\arc 
SQL> 


Lisa Koivu 
Oracle Database Administrator 
Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 
5259 Coconut Creek Parkway 
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA  33063 
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