dg_config is specific to DataGuard. Any reason why you are not using DataGuard .. It is quite mature in in 10g. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Zabair Ahmed Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:00 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Dataguard 10.1.0.4.0 Linux Hi, just in the process of creating a physical standby database without using dataguard, ie using SQL. Am getting the following error. ORA-16057: DGID from server not in Data Guard configuration Checked out what I can think off, ie db_unique_name matches whats in log_archive_config on the standby side. log_archive_config string dg_config=raprn db_unique_name string raprn fal_client string raprn fal_server string caprn Any ideas? TIA ________________________________ Switch an email account to Yahoo! Mail, you could win FIFA World Cup tickets <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/fifa_truswitch/*http:// eur.i1.yimg.com/java.europe.yahoo.com/uk/mail/fu/trueswitch/index.html> .