Question about archived logs

Hi!
I wonder if there is possibility to configure archiving policy in a way:
set one destination (/arch1/oracle) as primary, and another (/arch2/oracle) as optionally.
redo Logs will be copied to /arch2/oracle only if /arch1/oracle fails, but after it will be available again, files will be moved (or copied) from /arch2/oracle to /arch1/oracle. Anybody tried to store backup files in that way? is it possible? I tried various combinations of log_archive_dest_n and log_archive_dest_state_n parameters, but it won't work in a way I expected.
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wojaczek

it's about limitation of disk place on server where DB operates. Archived logs are stored on NFS filesystem, but time to time there are some problems with remote filesystem. In such cases DB will hang and manual change of arch log destination to local FS is needed. But this destination could not be set permanently because of disk space limitations.
When i set destination 1 as mandatory and 2 as optionally db hangs when arc can't use mandatory destination.
Setting both destinations as optionally gives finally inconsistency and storing files on local fs, what is not desirable

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Yes, hard drives are flimsy and fail, but you can easily duplicate a backup and store them in separate locations; then, make regular maintenance checks to see if they're viable. The probability of two backups failing simultaneously is astronomically low; the probability of one backup failing is astronomically high. For the average person, most dedicated backup systems are too far out of reach, pricewise and from an infrastructure standpoint. Duplicating hard drives is pretty crude, but it's cheap so long as you exercise due diligence.

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Hello,
What table's do the transaction codes ST03 and STAD retrieve log history files from?
Are these tables automatically logged by SAP, such as table CHDHR, or does table logging specifically have to be turned on for these table's?
Help is greatly appreciated on this. Thanks in advance,
Adamo

ST03 tables I believe are SAP Workload Tables. You can search SE16 for:
SAPWL*
rgds,
Babak

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I am new user of Sophos for Mac. I have OS 10.10.3 installed. My log says: com.sophos.intercheck: Info: Exclusion: /Volumes/Data/ at 12:48 on 13 June 2015
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